Foreign Assistance and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1979: An assessment of the effectiveness of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank in aiding the poorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - Economic assistance, American |
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Page 3 - A second change accompanied the new approach to development assistance: the significant increase in importance of the multilateral banks (The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the African Development Bank and Fund) as sources of development assistance.
Page 31 - Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor", The Manchester School, May, l954.
Page 127 - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic. Ecuador. El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico.
Page 9 - The President shall be chief of the operating staff of the Bank and shall conduct, under the direction of the Executive Directors, the ordinary business of the Bank.
Page 23 - In my view, therefore, there is no viable alternative to increasing the productivity of small-scale agriculture if any significant advance is to be made in solving the problems of absolute poverty in the rural areas.
Page 21 - But has it made a dent on the problems of mass poverty? Has it resulted in a reduction in the worst forms of poverty — malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, shelterless population, squalid housing? Has it meant more employment and greater equality of opportunities? Has the character of development conformed to what the masses really wanted?
Page 228 - ... if the borrower is other than a government the loan must be guaranteed by the member government in whose territory the project is located, or by its central bank or some comparable agency; (c) the Bank must act 'prudently...
Page 303 - Off., l973. 88 p. US National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies. Replenishment of resources of the Inter-American Development Bank; communication from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a Special Report. Washington, US Govt. Print. Off., l975.
Page 21 - Here we stand after two decades of development, trying to pick up the pieces, and we simply do not know whether problems associated with dire poverty have increased or decreased or what real impact the growth of GNP has made on them. We do know that the rate of growth, as measured by the increase in GNP, has been fairly respectable in the 1960's, especially by historical standards.