Partners in Progress: A Report to the President by the International Development Advisory BoardInternational Development Advisory Board, 1951 - 120 páginas |
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Advisory Board believes Advisory Board recommends Africa agricultural appropriation Bank for Reconstruction basic Belgian Congo billion dollars Brazil British East Africa cent Colombo Plan Commerce critical materials Department Development Authority development program Economic Analysis Division Economic Cooperation Administration economic development effective essential expanding Export-Import Bank exports facilities fibers food production foreign economic operations funds Gray Report income increase Indonesia industrial Institute of Inter-American international agencies International Bank International Development International Economic Analysis International Finance Corporation investors joint commissions labor Latin America manganese ment million minerals needed numbers Overseas Economic Administration Percent of total President private capital private enterprise problems progress projects raw materials REGIONAL DIVISION rice servicio SOURCE South America South Asia Southeast Asia Southern North America Soviet Technical Assistance technical cooperation programs tion Total imports transfer risk treaties U.S. CONGRESS underdeveloped areas underdeveloped countries United Nations United States Government Western Europe
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Página 91 - We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.
Página 91 - I believe that we should make available to peace-loving peoples the benefits of our store of technical knowledge in order to help them realize their aspirations for a better life. And, in co-operation with other nations, we should foster capital investment in areas needing development.
Página 92 - The old imperialism — exploitation for foreign profit — has no place in our plans. What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair dealing.
Página 4 - With only 6 per cent of the world's population and 7 per cent of its area, the United States accounts for roughly half of the whole world's industrial output.
Página 91 - Our aim should be to help the free peoples of the world, through their own efforts, to produce more food, more clothing, more materials for housing, and more mechanical power to lighten their burdens.
Página 82 - ... that they will be given reasonable opportunity to remit their earnings and withdraw their capital ; that they will have reasonable freedom to manage, operate, and control their enterprises; that they will enjoy security in the protection of their persons and property, including industrial and intellectual property, and nondiscriminatory treatment in taxation and in the conduct of their business affairs.
Página 92 - Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies — hunger, misery, and despair.
Página 97 - Members of the Advisory Committee shall be paid a per diem allowance of $50 for each day spent away from their homes or regular places of business, for the purpose of attendance at meetings of the Committee, and in necessary travel, and while so engaged they may be paid actual travel expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses.
Página 91 - More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and the skill to relieve the suffering of these people.
Página 10 - The peoples of the United States and other nations have a common interest in the freedom and in the economic and social progress of all peoples.