The World Bank is sending a mission to Thailand, at the request of the Government, to assist in the formulation of a long-term development program. The mission will study the country's resources and make...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148760Date: June 28, 1957
The World Bank today made a loan equivalent to 4.8 million dollars for improvement of transport in Burundi, a United Nations Trust Territory 1n central Africa administered by Belgium.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148709Date: June 26, 1957
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: international bank 0f flowers, shrubs, and trees; and new Executive Directors.
This report reviews the economy of Panama. It provides an economic history and discusses international trade and payments; capital and capital formation; national income and output; agriculture, forestry...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN26Date: May 31, 1957
1he World Bank today made a loan equivalent to 9.8 million dollars for the expansion of a thermal electric power plant at Trombay near Bombay. The additional power will help to alleviate the continuing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148707Date: May 29, 1957
The World Bank, in participation with other investors, today made a loan equivalent to 15 million dollars to the Finance Corporation for National Reconstruction (Herstelbank) of the Netherlands. The loan...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148706Date: May 15, 1957
This study describes and analyzes the structure of Panama's fiscal system, in its broad setting, in an effort to determine how well it has served the Government and how it might be expected to serve in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN27Date: May 1, 1957
This report provides a review of economic positions and prospects of Jamaica as of 1957. Jamaica is a small densely populated island. It has an area of four thousand square miles and a population of around...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA69Date: March 31, 1957
Air-India International Corporation, India's international airline, has arranged to borrow 16.8 million dollars to finance the dollar costs of three Boeing long-range jet passenger planes on on March...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148701Date: March 5, 1957
This press release announces that the World Bank released a statement of its principal activities from July 1, 1956 to January 31, 1957, supplementing the Eleventh Annual Report. The supplemental report...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 150221Date: March 1, 1957
This press release announces that the World Bank is sending a mission to Argentina, at the request of the Argentine Government, to study the general economic situation and the Government's investment plans....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 150220Date: February 20, 1957
The report, Economic Development of Iran, prepared January 1957, was based on a fiscal and technical mission sent to Iran in August and September of 1956. The report concluded that there are reasonable...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS55Date: January 31, 1957
The World Bank has now transmitted to the Italian Government the report of a special survey mission which has been studying the economy of the Trust Territory of Somaliland, in Africa.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148699Date: January 25, 1957
Th~ World Bank has made a loan equivalent to 75 million dollars to Iran to provide short-term financing required for Iran's Second Seven-Year Development Plan.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148697Date: January 23, 1957
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: meeting Americans, South about outside; new professional staff; a glimpse at Economic Development Institute (EDI); bowling...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64031Date: January 1, 1957Author:
Ghaussi, Arif M.
This report, Quarterly Economic Review Numbers 5 and 6, was prepared in December 1956, by the staff of the Department of Operations for Asia and The Middle East. The report covers the following nations:...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS57Date: December 31, 1956
The World Bank today made a loan of 20 million dollars to finance part of the cost of constructing a modern strip mill at the Kawasaki Steel Corporation's plant near Tokyo.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148557Date: December 19, 1956
Economic progress in Pakistan has been substantial in the past five years; industry has forged ahead particularly and some progress has been made in agriculture. National income in real terms appears to...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS56ADate: December 14, 1956
The World Bank has made a loan or 50 million dollars to the commonwealth of Australia to finance imports of equipment for the development of agriculture and forestry, road and rail transport, industry...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148553Date: December 5, 1956
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