U.S. Food Aid Programs and World Hunger: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, July 15, August 14, and September 16, 1986 |
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Page 180 - Within a liberal international economic order, it is not the volume of concessional foreign aid that sets the ultimate constraint on a less developed nation's pace of economic transformation and material progress. Instead, the limit will be set, in practice, principally by the recipient government's policies, administrative competence, and willingness to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by international markets in goods, services, and finance. Apart from their congressional budget presentations...
Page 169 - make the elimination of hunger the primary focus of its relationships with the developing world beginning with the decade of the 1980s.
Page 171 - United States bilateral development assistance should give high priority to undertakings submitted by host governments which directly improve the lives of the poorest of their people and their capacity to participate in the development of their countries...
Page 181 - States officially supports cannot work for the poor — or should not be allowed to do so. American developmental aid should support the workings of just this liberal international economic order. Assistance should be directed toward helping governments govern more productively, rather than redressing international poverty through unsustainable transnational budget transfers. Development assistance should be guided by principles of entrepreneurship and comparative advantage: that is, of making the...
Page 105 - Thank you very much for coming. The hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 5 pm, the hearing was adjourned, subject to call of the Chair.] APPENDIX STATEMENT OF RICHARD L.
Page 57 - Secretary, is a contract, containing stipulations on the part of the Government, and on the part of the corporation, entered into for full and adequate consideration. The Government became party to this contract by granting the charter, and the stockholders by accepting it.
Page 160 - ... of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Food Security Act of 1985 (Pub.
Page 180 - ... Such transfers do not encourage selfsustaining growth in most recipient nations. To the contrary, they tend to distort growth processes and economic structures. Moreover, concessional budgetary transfers have often had the effect of overvaluing exchange rates and thereby reducing recipient nations' abilities to compete in, and learn from, the world economy. The consequences of such distortions on the sustainability of emergent structures and the prospects for the poor within them are predictable....
Page 8 - ... activities, and private foundations, which do not meet Condition No. 1 of AID Regulation 3 will not be registered but may, in exceptional circumstances, become participants in the section 416 program. The Office of Food for Peace will conduct a review of such applications, and forward recommendations to the Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Food for Peace and Voluntary Assistance (FVA) for a decision regarding participation. (f) Organizations approved for participation in the section...
Page 153 - During the African famine of 1985/86, the US Government approved for shipment to Africa more than 4.7 million metric tons of food aid, valued at $1.6 billion. Of that amount, 2.4 million metric tons were dedicated to emergency relief. This effort was particularly impressive because it was accomplished despite the continent's limited physical infrastructure and the weak administrative capacities of the countries needing help. Joining us in this effort, we had the...