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To assist in correcting inadequacies of service, organi- ments, and provide a cruzeiro grant to the Brazilian
zation, and personnel training, AID in May 1964, as Institute for Municipal Administration with which to
part of the Alliance for Progress, entered into an agree- solve the tax administration problem. The Institute
ment with the government of Brazil to provide funds for plans to set up a revolving fund to make loans to selected
seminars on the administration and management of municipalities for the development of tax maps and
municipal affairs to be attended by mayors and current tax rolls.
councilmen. Through several other agreements, funds have either
Brazilian municipalities frequently lack the tax docu- been obligated or released for development of water
mentation necessary to develop public utility financing, supply and sewage systems.
In May 1965, AID entered into a revised agreement to Turkey (Bursa Industrial District).-The purpose of the
provide technical assistance for reorganization and proper Bursa Industrial District program is to attract industry
administration of municipal water and sewer depart- into this formerly rural area of northwest Turkey by
One of the largest and most important
uses of local currenciesfrom
title I sales are loans for economic
development. In Brazil, one such
loan has been used to eradicate j
malaria-partof Brazil's effort to
develop her human resources in such
fields as health, education, agriculture,
and industry. Loans of
local currenciesfor economic development
have gone to 36 countries
since the program began. i%
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