These were to involve suspension of military sales, high-level contacts and World Bank loans.
That's 46 times the amount of all the World Bank loans made over the past three decades.
But aerial photographs show that over half the earmarked forest is unoccupied, much of it immature plantation paid for with World Bank loans.
They have requested that the United States Trade Representative ask President Barack Obama to revoke the trade preferences Argentina now enjoys, and are lobbying to block its access to World Bank loans.
Santa Cruz chose to improve the municipal water utility instead, using World Bank loans, as La Paz had done (and so disproving the myth that the Bank lends only to privatised schemes).
Late in the evening, Eddie phoned to say that Tan Siew Sin wanted amendments included whereby we would take over the guarantees that the central government had given the IMF and the World Bank for loans granted to Singapore, a niggling detail.
The World Bank suspended new loans to Zimbabwe because of its failure to keep up with repayments.
The World Bank is making its loans to some South Korean companies conditional on their adoption of a set of international accounting standards.
The World Bank repaid the devotion with loans making Ghana one of Africa's biggest borrowers.
And with the advice and conditions it attaches to its loans, World Bank lending arguably fosters good economic policy better than the private sector.
Regional sanctions are unlikely, but the United States may cut its bilateral aid, and block new loans from the World Bank and others.
These include America's embargo on backing loans from the World Bank, which would impose higher environmental and other standards on big infrastructure projects such as Myitsone.
Egypt's minister of culture said the Italian Government had offered Egypt feasibility studies, and the World Bank had offered to provide long-term loans.
World Bank officials, and many European shareholders, claim that loans rather than grants impose discipline on a borrowing country.
India at that time was the World Bank's biggest client, and the bank made loans for health projects conditional on population control.
For the World Bank and other development lending institutions, the commission wants most loans to stop, especially those going to countries that can borrow commercially.
In December, CapexMD agreed to start making loans to patients buying eggs from the World Egg Bank in Phoenix, which previously offered financing through Capital One.
Since joining the World Bank, in 1992, Uzbekistan had received more than five hundred million dollars in loans, mostly for rural water and health projects.
The focus is increasingly on country's own efforts to alleviate poverty, with the World Bank - the lead anti-poverty organisation - providing guidance and advice, and at times loans for specific programmes.
In other international news, Chinese experts welcome plans for a development bank funded by the BRICS nations that is expected to provide loans for infrastructure construction in the developing world.
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