This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: visit to Surinam, by Arthur Wubnig; welcome to January's new staff members; India, by Mrs. Virginia Nemeth; Bank blood...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63974Date: February 1, 1952Author:
Lawrie,Wilfred ;
Nemeth, Virginia ;
Wubnig, Arthur
This press release announces a loan of two million five hundred thousand dollars has been granted to Peru on January 23, 1952.The loan will be used to improve Peru's main port.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147391Date: January 23, 1952
On the average, yields on the tropical soils ere rather low end any improvement would help economic development in those areas. For many crops, including such tropical crops as rice, average yields rise...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67141Date: January 21, 1952Author:
Devries E
This press release announces a loan of five million dollars has been granted to Paraguay on December 7, 1951. The loan is to increase agricultural production – Paraguay's chief economic activity.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147386Date: December 7, 1951
This transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development held on Thursday, December 6, 1951, covers only the discussion of Two Hundred and...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 142082Date: December 6, 1951
In the immediate post-war period, Western Europe suffered from a severe coal shortage which reached a peak in 1947, when net imports amounted to 42 million tons. Net imports dropped rapidly in the following...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67123Date: November 29, 1951Author:
Lipkowitz,Samuel ;
Beltranena, M. C.
This press release announces a loan for two million four hundred thousand dollars was granted to Colombia on November 13, 1951. This is the third loan granted to Colombia for electric power development.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147385Date: November 13, 1951
This press release announces the Bank's net income for three months ending September 30, 1951 was four million two hundred sixty-one thousand eight hundred seventy-two dollars.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147382Date: October 30, 1951
Practically all of Paraguay's 100,000 odd farmers live in the eastern part of the country where they cultivate an area of 360,000 hectors. Four-fifths of them are concentrated around Asuncion and the central...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67112Date: October 25, 1951Author:
Groenveld,Douwe R.
The transport system of the Belgian Congo is based mainly on the Congo river fluvial network as supplemented and extended by rail links and feeder lines, by trunk and local roads, and by rail-river-lake...
Report#: 67110Date: October 18, 1951Author:
Wubnig, Arthur
This survey was conducted in six of the industrial countries of Europe to ascertain: the availability of items and equipment and materials need by Bank financed projects; the present control mechanisms...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN13Date: September 30, 1951
The raw material boom of the last year has resulted in substantial increase in the export carnage of many countries, especially underdeveloped countries. Many governments have established new export taxes...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67103Date: September 25, 1951Author:
Asp, Eero
This press release announces that the Sixth Annual Report of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as approved by its Executive Directors, was presented to the Board of Governors at...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149052Date: September 10, 1951
Economic development of the Belgian Congo began only 50 years ago and the colony is still relatively under underdeveloped; per capita income of the native population is still under $30 equivalent per year,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67101Date: September 10, 1951Author:
Kamarck,Andrew M
This report has the technical review of the development projects in Egypt as on August, 1951. The projects included in the development program of Egypt had been submitted by the Egyptian government to...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L138Date: August 28, 1951
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