International Organization and Conference Series I. General, Issue 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 |
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accepted Additional agreed Agreement agricultural Alternative A SECTION amendment amount appointed approved Article III Article VII assets Board of Governors borrower Camille Gutt Chairman Committee of Commission Czechoslovakia decision deemed depository designation discussion distributed Document Drafting Committee economic elected entitled Executive Directors Financial Conference foreign exchange French Delegation Fund's holdings Fund's resources governments guarantee Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa held Hoc Committee holdings of gold Ibrahim Kamal immune International Monetary Fund J.S. Art Jaime Hernandez Joint Statement July 13 liquidation loans Manuel Noriega member countries member's currency membership ment mittee Monetary and Financial Montoulieu Netherlands number of votes obligations operations par value paragraph percent President proposed provisions purposes recommendations Reconstruction and Development referred rency Reporting Delegate repurchase restrictions Schedule Secretary Soviet Socialist Republics Subcommittee subscription territories tion Union of Soviet United Kingdom United Nations United Nations Monetary United States dollars Walter Nash withdraw
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Page 127 - To facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and to contribute thereby to the promotion and maintenance of high levels of employment and real income and to the development of the productive resources of all members as primary objectives of economic policy.
Page 326 - To assist in the establishment of a multilateral system of payments in respect of current transactions between members and in the elimination of foreign exchange restrictions which hamper the growth of world trade.
Page 845 - To give confidence to members by making the Fund's resources available to them under adequate safeguards, thus providing them with opportunity to correct maladjustments in their balance of payments without resorting to measures destructive of national or international prosperity.
Page 929 - Property and assets of the Bank, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation or any other form of seizure by executive or legislative action.
Page 713 - Actions may be brought against the Bank only in a court of competent jurisdiction in the territories of a member in which the Bank has an office, has appointed an agent for the purpose of accepting service or notice of process, or has issued or guaranteed securities.
Page 989 - ... (v) To conduct its operations with due regard to the effect of international investment on business conditions in the territories of members and, in the immediate post-war years, to assist in bringing about a smooth transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy.
Page 762 - Bank who are not local citizens, local subjects, or other local nationals. (c) No taxation of any kind shall be levied on any obligation or security issued by the Bank (including any dividend or interest thereon) by whomsoever held — (i) which discriminates against such obligation or security solely because it is issued by the...
Page 968 - The Bank and its officers shall not interfere in the political affairs of any member; nor shall they be influenced in their decisions by the political character of the member or members concerned. Only economic considerations shall be relevant to their decisions, and these considerations shall be weighed impartially in order to achieve the purposes stated in Article I.
Page 1008 - Fund waives this immunity. (ii) not being local nationals, shall be granted the same immunities from immigration restrictions, alien registration requirements and national service obligations and the same facilities as regards exchange restrictions as are accorded by members to the representatives, officials, and employees of comparable rank of other members.
Page 572 - To assist in the reconstruction and development of territories of members by facilitating the investment of capital for productive purposes, including the restoration of economies destroyed or disrupted by war, the reconversion of productive facilities to peacetime needs and the encouragement of the development of productive facilities and resources in less developed countries.