HR 3148 · 101th Congress · Finance and Financial Sector

Productive Economic Participation of the Poor Act of 1989

Introduced 1989-08-04· Sponsored by Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
2
Committee
3
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy.(1989-09-01)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Productive Economic Participation of the Poor Act of 1989 - Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director for each multilateral development bank to vigorously advocate: (1) as a central and explicit objective of such bank's operations and financing in each borrowing country, increasing the productive role of the poor in such country's economy; (2) encouraging and assisting each borrowing country to develop national plans and strategies to eliminate the causes and manifestations of poverty; (3) intensifying ongoing policy dialogue with each borrowing country to design structural adjustment plans and project lending programs which will provide maximum assistance in achieving such objective; (4) describing in detail, in the bank's country strategy documents for each borrowing country, the national strategy for productive economic participation of the poor and the steps the bank plans to take to assist the borrowing country in achieving that objective; (5) assisting countries in assessing and monitoring progress in achieving poverty alleviation goals and targets; (6) adopting procedures and budgetary …

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Cosponsors (3)

2 Democrats1 Republican