Environmental Impact of Multilateral Development Bank-funded Projects: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, June 28 and 29, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 644 strani |
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Stran 335 - Convinced of the need for prompt and effective implementation by Governments and the international community of measures designed to safeguard and enhance the environment for the benefit of present and future generations of man...
Stran 76 - ... high-caliber American-dominated management, and well-qualified professional staff. As a charter member and major shareholder in the World Bank, the United States secured the sole right to a permanent seat on the Bank's Board of...
Stran 467 - The purpose of the Bank shall be to contribute to the acceleration of the process of economic development of the member countries, individually and collectively.
Stran 149 - Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down — that's not my department, says Wernher von Braun.
Stran 537 - The Bank's policy is, therefore, to assist with development projects that do not involve unnecessary or avoidable encroachment onto territories used or occupied by tribal groups. Similarly, the Bank will not support projects on tribal lands, or that will affect tribal lands, unless the tribal society is in agreement with the objectives of the project, as they affect the tribe, and unless it is assured that the borrower has the capability of implementing effective measures to safeguard tribal populations...
Stran 554 - The main objective of the policy is that "settlers are afforded opportunities to become established and economically self-sustaining in the shortest possible period, at living standards that at least match and if possible improve on those before resettlement" (World Bank Technical Paper # 80, pg 19).
Stran 340 - Few threats to global peace and survival of the human community are greater than those posed by the prospects of a cumulative and irreversible degradation of the biosphere on which all human life depends".
Stran 116 - The subcommittee will stand adjourned. [Whereupon, at 12:10 pm, the subcommittee was adjourned, to reconvene at 10 am...
Stran 572 - The contracting parties undertake to take necessary steps "to prevent and suppress the slave trade" and "to bring about the complete abolition of slavery in all its forms.
Stran 535 - ...the Bank will assist projects within areas used or occupied by tribal people only If it Is satisfied that best efforts have been made to obtain the voluntary, full, and conscionable agreement of the tribal people... and that the project design and Implementation strategy are appropriate to meet the special needs and wishes of such peoples.