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International Development Association: A legal fiction designed to secure an LDC constituency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Ronald T. Libby
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International Organization , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , Fall 1975 , pp. 1065 - 1072
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1975

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5 Ibid.

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22 As of September 1972, IDA membership was comprised of 19 Part I or donor countries and 89 Part II or borrowing LCD countries, which included IDA recipients. Three Part II countries, Ireland, Spain, and Yugoslavia and a non-member, Switzerland, however, have made contributions to IDA, bringing the number of IDA donors to 23. Kamarack, Andrew M., “The Allocation of Aid by the World Bank Group,” Finance and Development 9, no. 3, (09 1972): 26–7Google Scholar.

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