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151. Draft Memorandum From the Director of the International Development Cooperation Agency ( Ehrlich ) to President Carter

tries, despite the continued existence of poverty, are not appropriate recipients of scarce concessional funds because of substantial domestic resources or access to private capital markets. In their current situations, we believe that Indonesia and Nigeria both fall into this class, although we propose maintaining a $50 million allocation to Indonesia in view of the State Department’s expression of strong concern and because of our belief that a well-designed technical assistance program there can have a particularly significant development impact. The effort that we are pursuing must be carr…