Kuwait has oil resources estimated at about one fifth of the world total. These resources give it a much more important role than its geographical dimensions and population might indicate. Because of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN32Date: November 30, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent forty million US dollars for Japan on November 29, 1961, to assist in financing completion of the express highway being built between Kobe and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147935Date: November 29, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent two million US dollars to the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) on November 22, 1961. This loan will be used to meet the foreign exchange requirements...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147872Date: November 22, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to ten million US dollars on November 3, 1961, to enable Peru to import equipment and materials for highway maintenance and improvement, and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147871Date: November 3, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to fifty million US dollars to India, to assist the development program of the Indian Railways on October 31, 1961.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147866Date: October 13, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA) joined in lending eleven million US dollars to Costa Rica for the improvement of its highway...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147865Date: October 13, 1961
This report presents the remarks delivered by R. B. J. Richards, General Counsel of the International Finance Corporation to the Conference on encouragement and protection of investment in developing countries....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112068Date: September 29, 1961Author:
Richards,R. B. J.
This press release announces the World Bank sending a mission to Kenya on September 20, 1961, at the request of the governments of the United Kingdom and of Kenya, to undertake a general survey of the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147863Date: September 20, 1961
This press release, dated September 19, 1961, announces the World Bank and its new affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA) published their annual reports. Together, they record total...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 150884Date: September 19, 1961
These remarks were delivered by Eugene R. Black, President of the World Bank, during the Annual Meeting on September 19, 1961 in Vienna, Austria. He spoke about the Bank's investment in development projects...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 125471Date: September 19, 1961Author:
Black,Eugene R.
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to three million US dollars to Central Bank of Costa Rica to assist a program for the importation of equipment for the development of private...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147862Date: September 6, 1961
This press release announces the agreement of the World Bank and its affiliate International Development Association (IDA), to provide loan equivalent to thirty-nine million US dollars to Colombia for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147659Date: August 29, 1961
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC) commitment to invest one million five hundred thousand US dollars in Fabrica Argentina de Engranajes S.A.I.C. (FADESA), a subsidiary...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149428Date: August 25, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to thirty-five million US dollars to India to assist the private coal mining industry to expand production on August 9, 1961.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147654Date: August 9, 1961
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: newsprint, Chile's new industry, by George Young; money, money, money, by Jeanne Mclennan; mid-Atlantic stopover; and new...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64073Date: August 1, 1961Author:
Mclennan,Jeanne ;
Young, George
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to eight million five hundred thousand US dollars to Philippines to finance equipment needed for a program of dredging, and maintaining harbors...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147651Date: July 26, 1961
In July 1961, Siem Aldewereld was interviewed on behalf of the World Bank Group Archives oral history program by Dr. Robert W. Oliver. During his tenure at the Bank from 1946 to 1974, Mr. Aldewereld worked...
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