Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, Volumul 2;Volumul 123

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Pagina 173 - 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.
Pagina 1 - NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL AUTHORIZED BY THE COMMITTEE A REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS...
Pagina 173 - Second, there is the right to the fulfillment of such vital needs as food, shelter, health care and education.
Pagina 24 - ... Oversight Office may, for good cause, grant and revoke waivers of this requirement for specified classes of documents or information. 1-505. Foreign government information shall either retain its original classification designation or be assigned a United States classification designation • that shall ensure a degree of protection equivalent to that required by the entity that furnished the information.
Pagina 165 - States representatives to the institutions named in this section shall oppose any loan or other financial assistance for establishing or expanding production for export of palm oil, sugar, or citrus crops if such loan or assistance will cause injury to United States producers of the same, similar, or competing agricultural commodity.
Pagina 24 - Informal name used to designate a group of three affiliated international institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The IBRD, established in 1945, has the primary purpose of providing loans to developing countries for productive projects.
Pagina 73 - Shadow pricing 11 1 frequently is used, predicated upon an increase in welfare resulting from any marginal change in the availability of commodities or factors of production. The economic rate of return is expressed as a discount rate which equates the present value of expected future revenues to the initial cost outlay. Certain effects of a project, particularly one in the social arena...
Pagina 173 - Congress that, where other means have proven ineffective in promoting international human rights, and except where the President determines that the cause of international human rights is served more effectively by actions other than voting against such assistance or where the assistance is...
Pagina 92 - ... borrowings and finance, (3) statements of financial position, and (4) various statistical annexes. The financial statements in each institution's report include a certification by an independent public accounting firm of international reputation that they tested the accounting records and that, in their opinion, the financial statements present fairly the financial position and the results of the institution's operations for the year. The Board of Governors of each institution generally meets...
Pagina 24 - The United States and its nationals shall have and enjoy all the rights and benefits secured under the terms of the mandate to members of the League of Nations and their nationals, notwithstanding the fact that the United States is not a member of the League of Nations.

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