IDB and AFDF Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 9721 ... January 28, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 86 pages |
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$15 million addition AESS AFDB AFDF African Development Bank African Development Fund agricultural and livestock amount appropriations approved areas Argentina authorized Bahamas and Guyana Bank's Beneficiaries and impact benefit the needy bonds borrowing Brazil BUSHNELL callable capital Canada capital stock Caribbean Development Bank Chairman COLAC Committee concessional CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cooperatives credit unions deficit developing countries earmarking economic development Executive Director financing Fund for Special Guyana hemisphere House IADB important increase Inter-American Development Bank interregional capital Latin America Latin American countries LIBRARY OF CONGRESS member countries ment Mexico million in dollars MULCAHY nations Ordinary capital resources organizations outlay paid-in percent poorest Project description proposed regional replenishment request ROGERS sectors Senator CLARK Senator HUMPHREY share Special Operations subscribed technical assistance tion trade Trust Fund U.S. contribution U.S. dollars U.S. exports U.S. Government U.S. participation United States Governor Venezuela World Bank
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Page 5 - ... torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.
Page 4 - C ) has imposed or enforced discriminatory taxes or other exactions, or restrictive maintenance or operational conditions, or has taken other actions, which have the effect of nationalizing, expropriating, or otherwise seizing ownership or control of property so owned...
Page 4 - Bank shall be a party shall be deemed to arise under the laws of the United States, and the district courts of the United States shall have original jurisdiction of any such action.
Page 69 - No assistance may be provided under this part to the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.
Page 4 - January 1, 1962 — (A) has nationalized or expropriated or seized ownership or control of property owned by any United States citizen or by any corporation, partnership, or association not less than 50 per centum beneficially owned by United States citizens...
Page 9 - Act of 1961, as amended, prohibited economic assistance to "the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights . . . unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country
Page 1 - Increase of $1,200,000,000 in Resources of Fund for Special Operations' proposed by the Governors at their annual meeting in April 1967 and now pending before the Board of Governors of the Bank. Upon the adoption of such resolution, the United States Governor is authorized...
Page 4 - XII of the agreement: or (d) make a loan or provide other financing to the Bank, except that loans or other financing may be provided to the Bank by a United States agency created pursuant to an Act of Congress which is authorized by law to make loans or provide other financing to international organizations.
Page 3 - Unless Congress by law authorizes such action, neither the President nor any person or agency shall, on behalf of the United States, (a) subscribe to additional shares of stock under article II, section 3 of the agreement; (b) request or consent to any change...
Page 3 - In determining whether or not a country falls within the provisions of subsection (a), the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on International Relations...