International Development Association (IDA)

This file relates to the accession of the UK to the International Development Association (IDA) and aid to less developed countries. It contains correspondence concerning:

• NATO meeting in Istanbul in May 1960, with a brief for the discussion of aid to less developed countries (70, 76)
• Formation of the IDA as a subsidiary organisation to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the obligations of membership for HMG regarding its dependent territories in terms of immunities and privileges. It includes discussion of Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, the Maldives, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the New Hebrides and Tonga. It also includes the International Development Association Act, 1960 [enclosed] and its progress through parliament; and the attitude of the UK to the potential for the IDA to be affiliated to the UN (74, 84, 86, 88, 91, 93, 95, 99)
• Details and statistics of UK and French aid to under-developed countries (77)
• Talking points from 10 Downing Street on the limited meeting on mutual assistance and future UK policy (78)
• US memorandum on possible joint East-West research on new economic uses of agricultural products; and a parliamentary question from Maurice Edelman MP asking what communication there has been between HMG and President Charles de Gaulle on East-West cooperation in aid to under-developed countries (85, 97)
• Letter from I D Scott on aid capacity and best practice, through the example of the Congo (89)
• Draft reply to a resolution by John Holbrook Osborn MP on aid to under-developed countries (93)