Oversight of the Inter-American Foundation: Hearings Before the Subcommittees on International Operations and on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - Economic assistance, American |
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Page 114 - Congressional appropriations, and the other half from repayments in national currencies of loans from the Social Progress Trust Fund administered by the Inter-American Development Bank. In...
Page 178 - ... responds directly to the initiatives of the poor by supporting local and private organizations. Approximately one-half of the Foundation's funds come from congressional appropriations and the remainder from the Social Progress Trust Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank. The Foundation was created as an independent agency so that its operations would not be affected by short-term US foreign policy considerations. It is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors appointed by the President...
Page 178 - The purposes of the organization were legislatively stated to be: " ( 1 ) to strengthen the bonds of friendship and understanding among the peoples of this hemisphere; (2) to support self-help efforts designed to enlarge the opportunities for individual development ; (3) to stimulate and assist effective and ever wider participation of the people in the development process; and (4) to encourage the establishment and growth of democratic institutions, private and governmental, appropriate to the requirements...
Page 5 - Studies at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Page 112 - ... government-to-government level had done an impressive job in promoting industrial and economic growth of Latin America, they had proved much less effective in responding to the requirements of social and civic change on that continent. The establishment of the Institute was intended to assist in rectifying these shortcomings and in restoring the necessary and proper balance between the economic and social objectives of Inter-American cooperation and development.
Page 112 - all too little US assistance has reached the masses of the Latin American people or made a visible impact on their daily lives." The second was that social development goals "are not being achieved in any substantial meaningful sense.
Page 2 - THE PRESIDENT, The White House, Washington, DC DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I am writing to express...
Page 19 - Sir, as far as I am concerned — and I think I speak for the Secretary — we in the Department of Defense are not engaged in trying to get around anything.
Page 112 - ... very cornerstone of the Alliance for Progress, had not been achieved in any substantial meaningful sense. 3. That, although Alliance for Progress programs operating at the government-to-government level had done an impressive job in promoting industrial and economic growth of Latin America, they had proved much less effective in responding to the requirements of social and civic change on that continent.
Page iii - Foundation was established because of congressional concern that traditional programs of development assistance were not reaching poor people. Instead of working through governments, the Foundation responds directly to the initiatives of the poor by supporting local and private organizations.