SUMMARY AS OF:
12/11/1987--Introduced.
Title I: International Development Association - Amends the
International Development Association Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the
International Development Association to agree to pay on behalf of the United
States to the Association $2,875,000,000 to the eighth replenishment of the
resources of the Association. Authorizes appropriations for such contribution.
Title II: Asian Development Fund - Amends the Asian Development Bank
Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank to contribute
on behalf of the United States $584,280,000 to the Asian Development Fund.
Authorizes appropriations for such contribution.
Title III: African Development Bank - Amends the African Development
Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the African Development Bank to agree
to subscribe on behalf of the U.S. to 59,632 shares of the capital stock of the
Bank. Authorizes appropriations of $719,370,633 for such subscription.
Title IV: Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency - Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency Act - Authorizes the President to accept membership
for the United States in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Agency)
provided for by the Convention Establishing the Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency deposited in the archives of the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (Bank).
Provides that the Governor and Alternate Governor of the Bank shall serve as
Governor and Alternate Governor, respectively, of the Agency.
Directs the U.S. Director of the Agency to propose to the Board of Directors
that the Board adopt policies and procedures under which the Agency would not
issue guarantees in respect of any proposed investment that would: (1) be in a
country which has not taken or is not taking steps to afford internationally
recognized workers' rights to workers in that country; (2) be subject to
trade-distorting performance requirements imposed by the host country that are
likely to result in a significant net reduction in employment in the United
States or in the other member countries, a reduction in other trade benefits
likely to accrue to the United States or other member countries from the
investment; or (3) increase a country's productive capacity in an industry
already facing excess worldwide capacity for the same or a similar or competing
product, and cause substantial injury to producers of such product in another
member country. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Director to: (1)
oppose guarantees which may be issued in such circumstances; and (2) conduct an
evaluation of U.S. investments guaranteed by the Agency to determine their
impact on U.S. employment and exports and the extent to which such investments
were made in countries which had not taken or are not taking steps to afford
internationally-recognized workers' rights in host countries. Directs the
Secretary, in the course of such evaluation, to take into account the views of
U.S. labor organizations. Requires the Secretary to furnish such evaluation to
the Congress.
Directs the Secretary to ensure periodic consultations with United States
private sector representatives, through appropriate mechanisms, on policy
directions and operations of the Agency, and to take account of those
consultations in determining the policies of the United States toward the
Agency.
Provides that certain provisions of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act shall
apply to the Agency to the same extent as they apply to the Bank and the
International Monetary Fund.
Prohibits the President or any person or agency, unless authorized by law,
from: (1) subscribing to additional shares of stock in the Agency; (2) voting
for or agreeing to any amendment of the Convention which increases the
obligations of the United States, or which changes the purpose or functions of
the Agency; or (3) making a loan or providing other financing to the Agency.
Requires any Federal Reserve bank that is requested to do so by the Agency to
act as its depository or as its fiscal agent. Requires the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System to supervise and direct the carrying out of these
functions by the Federal Reserve banks.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe on behalf of the United
States to 20,519 shares of the capital stock of the Agency. Authorizes
appropriations of $222,015,580 for such subscription. Provides that any payment
of dividends of such stock shall be deposited into the Treasury as a
miscellaneous receipt.
Sets forth the jurisdiction of U.S. courts regarding civil actions to which
the Agency may be a party.
Sets forth procedures regarding arbitral awards rendered to resolve disputes
arising under the Convention. Gives full force and effect within the United
States, its territories, and possessions to defined privileges and immunities
accorded under the Convention to the Agency.
Title V: Inter-American Development Bank - Amends the Inter-American
Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Inter-American
Development Bank to agree to and to accept the amendments to the Articles of
Agreement in the proposed resolution entitled "Merger of Interregional and
Ordinary Capital Resources."
Title VI: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development -
Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the
Bank to agree to and to accept the amendment to the Articles of Agreement in the
proposed resolution entitled "Amendment to the Articles of Agreement of the
Bank."
Title VII: Policies for the Multilateral Development Banks - Amends
the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretaries of the
Treasury and State, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Agency for
International Development (AID), to vigorously promote mechanisms to strengthen
the environmental performance of multilateral development banks. Declares that
the mechanisms shall include, but are not limited to, strengthening
organizational, administrative, and procedural arrangements within the banks.
Directs the Administrator, in the course of reviewing assistance proposals of
the multilateral development banks, to ensure that other agencies and
appropriate U.S. embassies and overseas missions of AID are instructed to
analyze the environmental impacts of multilateral development loans in advance
of such loans' approval to determine whether the proposals will contribute to
the sustainable development of the borrowing country. Provides that if there is
reason to believe that any such loan may have adverse impacts on the
environment, then the Administrator shall ensure that the mission or embassy
undertakes an affirmative investigation of such impacts in consultation with
relevant Federal agencies. Requires any information collected to be made
available to the public.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the Executive Directors
representing the United States at the Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank,
the Asian Development Bank, and the African Development Bank to urge the
management and other directors of each such bank to provide sufficient time
between the circulation of assistance proposals and bank action on those
proposals, in order to permit their evaluation by major shareholder governments.
Requires the Administrator to identify those assistance proposals likely to
have adverse impacts on the environment, natural resources, public health, or
indigenous peoples and to transmit such information to specified congressional
committees. Requires the Secretary to forward such information to the Executive
Director representing the United States in the appropriate bank with
instructions to eliminate or mitigate adverse impacts which may result from the
proposal.
Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the
Administrator, to create a system for cooperative exchange of information with
other interested member countries on assistance proposals of the multilateral
development banks.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the United States Executive Directors of
the multilateral development banks to support the strengthening of educational
programs within each such bank to improve the capacity of mid-level managers to
initiate and manage environmental aspects of development activities, and to
train officials of borrowing countries in the conduct of environmental analyses.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the
multilateral development banks to: (1) urge each institution to identify and
develop procedures to give appropriate consideration to environmental values in
decisionmaking; and (2) include within each assistance proposal circulated to
the Board of Directors a detailed environmental statement analyzing the
environmental impact of the proposed action, the adverse environmental impacts
should the proposal be implemented, and alternatives to the proposed action.
Directs the Secretary to instruct U.S. Executive Directors of each
multilateral development bank to promote: (1) increases in the proportion of
loans supporting environmentally beneficial policies, projects, and project
components; (2) the establishment of environmental programs in policy-based
lending to improve natural resource management, environmental quality, and
protection of biological diversity; (3) increases in the proportion of staff
with professional training and experience in ecology and related areas and in
the areas of anthropological and sociological impact analysis; (4) encouragement
of participation by borrowing countries nongovernmental environmental,
community, and indigenous peoples' organizations at all stages of project
preparation and implementation; and (5) full availability to concerned or
affected nongovernmental and community organizations of full documentary
information concerning details of design and potential environmental and
sociocultural impacts of proposed loans.
Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report on the progress being made
to implement environmental objectives to specified congressional committees.
Directs the Secretary, after consultations with the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Secretary of the Interior on markets and prices for commodities, to
periodically instruct the U.S. Executive Directors to work with other executive
directors to continue to: (1) support activities which result in broad increases
in income and employment and enhance purchasing power in developing countries,
particularly among the rural poor; and (2) encourage diversification away from
single crop or product economies in developing countries to help reduce wide
fluctuations in commodity prices and the adverse impact of abrupt changes in the
terms of trade.
Requires the Secretary to discourage multilateral development banks from
financing projects which will result in the production of surplus commodities,
products, or minerals for export.
Directs the Secretary, in negotiations concerning replenishment or an
increase in capital for any multilateral development bank, to propose the
following institutional reforms: (1) the establishment of a unified program
within each multilateral development bank to assess the extent to which bank
lending benefits the least advantaged members of society, particularly women and
the poor, and to increase the extent to which such members benefit from future
bank lending; (2) the establishment of procedures within each multilateral
development bank to provide in-country liaison services for nongovernmental
organizations operating at the community level, to monitor the impact of project
and non-project lending on local populations, and to ensure compliance with loan
conditionalities; (3) a major increase in professional staff with training in
environmental or social impact analysis or natural science; (4) with respect to
the Bank, the establishment of a program for policy-based lending to promote the
sustainable use of renewable resources and the protection of the environment in
borrowing countries; and (5) an increase in the length of any review period for
board review of staff recommendations sufficient to allow the governments of
member countries to review and comment on such recommendations before the board
takes action.
Directs the Secretary to instruct each U.S. Executive Director to require the
management of each multilateral development bank to prepare an annual report
which identifies and describes the most exemplary lending practices or loan
components implemented during the preceding year with respect to specified
lending policy goals for each major borrowing country or country group.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank and
the International Development Association (IDA) to initiate discussions with
other directors of the respective institutions and to propose that: (1)
guidelines be established which reflect concern for the impact that adjustment
lending programs, and the activities such programs support, have and will have
on human welfare; and (2) impact statements be required which assess the effect
an adjustment lending program, and the activities such program supports, will
have on the poor of the country to which such lending is made. Requires such
impact statements to specify the effects of each adjustment loan on the poor,
explain the procedures which the borrowing country has taken or will take to
measure those effects (including the monitoring of nutrition levels), and
indicate the steps the borrowing country will take to mitigate adverse effects
on the poor and to maximize the benefits to them. Directs the Secretary to
instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank and the IDA to request the
management of the respective institutions to prepare a report on such topics.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank and
the IDA to propose the establishment of a Grassroots Collaboration Program to
develop improved mechanisms for involving nongovernmental organizations in the
design, implementation, and monitoring of development projects to alleviate
poverty and promote environmental protection.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Grassroots Collaboration Program
should be implemented and financed as part of the normal operations of the Bank
and the IDA. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such program could be
financed through a grant from the net income of the Bank. Requires the Secretary
to report to specified congressional committees on the status of the
establishment of such program.
Requires each annual report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council
on International Monetary and Financial Policies to describe the status of the
establishment and operation of the program.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank and
the IDA to initiate discussions with other directors and to propose that: (1)
the Bank or IDA take such steps as necessary to increase access for the poor
people of a borrowing country to formal sources of credit; and (2) the Bank or
IDA include a requirement in all appropriate agreements that the borrowing
country identify and remove unreasonable legal and regulatory barriers to the
establishment or operation of organizations which extend credit, and to the
provision of credit to microenterprises for small scale economic activities.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the African
Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank to initiate discussions with
other directors to propose that each such bank: (1) examine the Program for the
Financing of Small Projects of the Inter-American Development Bank and the steps
taken to link the Program to the mainstream operation of the bank; and (2)
explore ways and means to establish similar programs to provide credit to
microenterprises for small scale economic activities.
Requires each annual report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council
on International Monetary and Financial Policies to describe the status of
microenterprise credit promotion activities of the Bank, IDA, the African
Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank.
Declares the policy of the United States that multilateral development banks
should fully involve women in development activities and projects.
Directs the Secretary to instruct: (1) the U.S. Executive Director of the
Bank and IDA to support attempts to strengthen the role of the Women in
Development division in policy development, project design and implementation,
and evaluation; and (2) the U.S. Executive Directors of the regional
multilateral development banks to support exploring the establishment of a
mechanism, or the strengthening of an existing mechanism, to promote the full
integration of women in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of
lending activities in borrowing countries and within the banks.
Requires each annual report to the Congress by the National Advisory Council
on International Monetary and Financial Policies to describe the actions taken
by the multilateral development banks to implement policies established by this
Act.
Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of each
multilateral development bank to propose that the bank: (1) take appropriate
steps to measure the impacts of projects on indigenous peoples in borrowing
countries; (2) ensure compliance with loan conditions protecting the rights of
such people to lands and resources; and (3) consult with such peoples and
nongovernmental organizations representing them at every phase of loan design,
planning, implementation, and monitoring.