In the summer of 1955 the Belgian Government asked the Bank for assistance in financing the Ruanda-Urundi ten year development plan, mentioning the figure of $20 million. The Bank took the position that...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA66Date: December 4, 1956
The Commonwealth of Australia has arranged for the borrowing of seventeen million seven hundred seventy thousand dollars to, be evidenced by serial notes placed with institutional investors.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148551Date: November 23, 1956
This press release announces that the World Bank made its Eleventh Annual Report public on September 25, 1956. For the year ended: June 30, 1956, the Bank's tenth full year of operation, it reports lending...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149970Date: September 25, 1956
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development today reported a net income of 29.2 million dollars for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1956, compared with 24.7 million dollars for the preceding...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148509Date: August 7, 1956
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: why not sail there? By Harold Larsen; the long sands of North Carolina by Vittorio E Bolis; and Maryland's eastern shore.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64026Date: August 1, 1956Author:
Bolis, Vittorio E ;
Larsen,Harold W
The second course of the Economic Development Institute will open on October 1, 1956 in Washington, D .c. Twenty senior officials of seventeen countries or territories throughout the world have been selected...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148468Date: July 19, 1956
This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: Economic Development Institute (E.D.I) and Value Added Tax (T.V.A); marriage and immigration, by Giuseppe Morra; and pictures...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64025Date: July 1, 1956Author:
Morra,Giuseppe A.
The economy of the Federation has been growing at a high rate over the last twenty years. This has been the result of favorable world markets for its exports (mainly copper and tobacco) and a large immigration...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA60Date: June 30, 1956
The World Bank today made a loan of 75 million dollars in various currencies to The Tata Iron and Steel Company, Limited, of India, to assist in the financing of a large-scale expansion program to raise...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148465Date: June 26, 1956
The World Bank today made n loan of 16.5 million dollars to Colombia to complete a program to rehabilitate the principal highways held on June 6, 1956.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148457Date: June 6, 1956
The World Bank today made a loan of 3.2 million dollars to improve the port of Corinto, Nicaragua's most important seaport~ The loan will help pay for the construction of a new quay, transit sheds and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148456Date: May 22, 1956
The World Bank today made two loans totaling Nineteen Million Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars for the improvementof Burma's transport system. These are the first Bank loans in Burma, and the funds...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148421Date: May 4, 1956
The report, The Economy of Indonesia, was prepared in April 1956, in the wake of the visit of a bank mission in June and July of 1955. The report states that while considerable accomplishments have been...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS47Date: April 30, 1956
These remarks were delivered by Eugene R. Black, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to the Economic Society of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland on March 21, 1956. He spoke...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 141323Date: March 21, 1956Author:
Black,Eugene R.
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development today reported a net income of 21.2 million dollars for the nine-month period ending March 31, 1956 compared with 18.6 million dollars for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148422Date: March 7, 1956
This press release announces the World Bank released a statement of its principal activities from July 1, 1955 to January 31, 1956, supplementing the Tenth Annual Report. The statement was prepared for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149956Date: February 20, 1956
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development today reported a net income of 13.7 million dollars for the six-month period ending December 31, 1955 compared with 12.3 million dollars for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148416Date: February 6, 1956
At the request of the Colombian Government, a mission from the International Bank visited the country in September and October 1955 to consult with the National Government regarding its development plans....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: Z6Date: February 1, 1956
At the request of the Colombian Government, a mission from the International Bank visited the country in September and October 1955 to consult with the National Government regarding its development plans....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: Z6Date: February 1, 1956
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