Sudan has now completely recovered from the serious recession of 1957 and 1958, brought about largely by the steep fall in world prices of long staple cotton during these two years. Prospects for the current...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS86Date: June 30, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank's first loan to Argentina to finance improvements on about one thousand six hundred miles of some of the country's most important highways, and to pay for equipment...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147646Date: June 30, 1961
This press release announces the joint World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), loan equivalent to twenty-five million US dollars to Chile for the improvement of road...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147645Date: June 28, 1961
British Guiana is the only English-speaking country on the South American mainland. Still a Colony, it will achieve full internal self-government in July of 1961. No date has been set for independence,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA122Date: June 7, 1961
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: from our Presidents; a look backward by Richard H. Demuth; Bankmanship by, S. R. Cope; our fifteen year staff; historical...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64071Date: June 1, 1961Author:
Cathala, Lise ;
Cope,S. Raymond ;
Demuth,Richard H. ;
Homsi,George H.
This press release announces publishing the report of a general economic survey mission organized by the World Bank at the request of the government of Venezuela on May 26, 1961, by The Johns Hopkins Press....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147498Date: May 26, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank sending a special mission to Chile, at the request of the government, to review the ten years program for the development of Chile which has been prepared by...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147497Date: May 25, 1961
This press release announces the Peruvian government and the World Bank having agreed to sponsor a survey of Peru's highway facilities, and the existing regulations governing inland transport on May 24,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147499Date: May 24, 1961
This press release announces Colombia and the World Bank having agreed to sponsor a survey of Colombia's transportation facilities and needs with the objective of formulating a coordinated transportation...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147495Date: May 16, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to eighty million US dollars to the Japanese National Railways for the new Tokaido Line to link Tokyo with Osaka, via Yokahama, Nagoya and Kyoto...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147450Date: May 2, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to twenty-two million US dollars to the State Railway of Thailand to assist in the execution of a six-year program of modernization on April...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147448Date: April 28, 1961
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: jungle railway by George R. Young; automation takes over by Victor Chang; international fashion parade; new professional...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64069Date: April 1, 1961Author:
Chang,Victor C. ;
Young,George R.
This press release, dated March 17, 1961, announces at the request of the Spanish Government, the World Bank sent a mission to Spain to assist the government in working out the basis for a long-term development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 150841Date: March 17, 1961
This press release, dated February 27, 1961, announces the World Bank released a statement of its principal activities between July 1, 1960 and January 31, 1961 supplementing the fifteenth annual report....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 150838Date: February 27, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to eight million eight hundred thousand US dollars for the expansion of electric generating and transmission facilities in Costa Rica on February...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147436Date: February 3, 1961
Yugoslavia is about as large as the United Kingdom or Uestern Germany,but has about one-third the population. The country can be divided roughlyinto three main regions: (1) the northeast, the granary of...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA112Date: January 19, 1961
This press release announces the World Bank loan equivalent to fourteen million US dollars to the Union of Burma Railway Board for a rehabilitation and modernization program on January 16, 1961. The proceeds...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147426Date: January 16, 1961
This press release, dated January 3, 1961, announces a World Bank mission in Pakistan to study the Pakistan second five-year plan of economic development. The study was made in preparation for a meeting...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 150836Date: January 3, 1961
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: welcome to new staff; The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (I.B.R.D.) role in the U.N. special fund,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64066Date: January 1, 1961Author:
Iverson, Kenneth R. ;
Wilde, Martha de
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