Foreign assistance and related programs appropriations for 1987: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, Part 1

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Page 672 - Gross national product (GNP) is the measure of the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of an economy, less the domestic output claimed by nonresidents.
Page 473 - Baker at the Joint annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in October 1985.
Page 673 - RATE is the annual growth rate in real terms that has been computed by fitting trend lines to the logarithmic values of GNP per capita at constant market prices for each year of the time period. With this method, all available observations within the relevant time period are considered, and the growth rates obtained reflect general trends rather than cyclical factors or irregular variations in any particular year. The source of data is the IBRD, WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 1987.
Page 1237 - Bank shall be $10,000,000,000, in terms of United States dollars of the weight and fineness in effect on July 1 , 1944.
Page 894 - Excess defense articles means the quantity of defense articles owned by the United States Government, and not procured in anticipation of military assistance or sales requirements, or pursuant to a military assistance or sales order, which is in excess of the Approved Force Acquisition Objective and Approved Force Retention Stock of all Department of Defense Components at the time such articles are dropped from inventory by the supplying agency for delivery to countries or international organizations.
Page 234 - Congress, recognizing the fact that "women in developing countries play a significant role in economic production, family support, and the overall development process," required that US bilateral aid "be administered so as to give particular attention to those programs, projects and activities which tend to integrate women into the national economies of foreign countries, thus improving their status and assisting the total development effort.
Page 669 - In rural areas the definition implies that members of the household do not have to spend a disproportionate part of the day fetching water. An adequate...
Page 1677 - Stat. 612), $130,000,000, including the purchase of not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles for administrative purposes for use outside of the United States: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be used to pay for abortions.
Page 1229 - The assumed rate of return used in determining the actuarial present value of vested and nonvested accumulated plan benefits is 7 percent.

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