Highveld High-altitude grassland, generally between 1,200 meters and 1,800 meters above sea level. A primarily residential area set aside for a single officially designated black ethnic group during the apartheid era. Some of the ten homelands in the 1980s consisted of more than a dozen discrete segments of land. Homeland boundaries shifted as the government assigned additional groups of people to the often crowded homelands or as neighboring jurisdictions successfully pressed claims to territory within a homeland's boundary. An economic development strategy that emphasizes the growth of domestic industries, often by import protection using tariff and nontariff measures.
Proponents favor the export of industrial goods over primary products.
These loans frequently carry conditions that require substantial internal economic adjustments by the recipients, most of which are developing countries. Such descent can in principle be traced. Paris Club deliberations often result in the tendering of emergency loans to countries in economic difficulty or in the rescheduling of debts. Formed in October 1962, the organization has no formal or institutional existence. Its secretariat is run by the French treasury.