Congressional Study Mission and Consultation on a Caribbean Development Agenda for the 1990s: Hearings Before the Subcommittees on Western Hemisphere Affairs and on International Economic Policy and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, November 3 and 4, 1989, Volume 4

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Page 147 - The staff of this subcommittee is pursuing research along various lines which might make it desirable to hold another hearing in the not too distant future. So, for those reasons, the subcommittee will stand in recess to the call of the Chair. Thank you very much. (Whereupon, at 1 pm, the subcommittee recessed, to reconvene at the call of the Chair...
Page 89 - Statement prepared for the Subcommittees on Western Hemisphere Affairs and on International Economic Policy and Trade, Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC, 12 May. 1992b, 'Economic integration in the Western Hemisphere: the importance of regionalism and multilateralism', mimeo, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, July.
Page 44 - Fellow in the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Page 205 - In testifying before the Committee on Ways and Means of the US House of Representatives, on November 6, 1969, by Daniel W.
Page 208 - Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced...
Page 213 - US signed agreements with Panama and Colombia on the financing of the last unfinished link of the Pan American Highway- -the Darien Gap. Construction can now begin this year.
Page 145 - promote to the utmost... the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories" and to "take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples". The imposition of partition on Palestine against the express wishes of the majority of its population can in no way be considered as respect for or compliance with any of the above-mentioned principles of the Charter. Moreover, partition involves the alienation...
Page 186 - Caribbean was then suggested as a strategy both for mantaining the 936 section and for inducing growth along the Caribbean. The scheme attempts to encourage firms that operate or want to operate manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico to open "twin plants
Page 180 - The new insertion of the Caribbean into the world economic system, dominated by the transnational corporation (TNC), has implied a greater dependency on imports of capital goods and technology, and a disintegration of traditional production in many areas.
Page 187 - Section 936: l 186 1) That restrictions for the use of 936 funds deposited in banks in Puerto Rico be increased, earmarking a percentage to stimulate investment in development-related proyects, specially cooperatives involved in.Productive activities.

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