On the whole, the existing Chilean transport system is capable of moving the current amount of freight. Only a slight increase in capacity seems necessary to accommodate a growth in traffic at a rate commensurate...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67083Date: May 25, 1951Author:
Finne,Grace W.
This press release announces the Bank's net income for nine months ending March 31, 1951 was eleven million four hundred eighty-three thousand two hundred thirty dollars.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147199Date: April 30, 1951
Ceylon is primarily agricultural. Little industrial development has taken place, and about 85 percent of the population is classified as rural. Essentially Ceylon is a specialized agricultural export economy...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN11Date: April 30, 1951
Transport projects are of primary importance for the realization of an economic development program in Syria. Syria's recently acquired independence (1946) and separation from the customs Union with Lebanon...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67077Date: April 20, 1951Author:
Finne,Grace W.
This International Banks notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: information, please; welcome to new staff members; personals; bowling news; international cooking corner; Bank fund tennis...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63964Date: April 1, 1951Author:
French, Harriet
Syria is a country with considerable unused resources in the field of agriculture. The economic development of Syria is facilitated by comparatively high standards of education and its importance is enhanced...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67064Date: March 22, 1951Author:
Bochenski, F. G.
This press release announces the principal activities of the International Bank since August 1, 1950, supplementing the fifth Annual Report of the Bank.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149045Date: March 2, 1951
This International Banks notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: Bank financed steel mills; welcome to new staff; personals; who~^!!^s who in the Bank; between the book ends; international...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63963Date: March 1, 1951Author:
French, Harriet
This report examines, in terms of their urgency productivity and soundness, major transport projects for which no external, financing has yet been arranged. For convenience of analysis, the projects are...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67061Date: February 9, 1951Author:
Wubnig, Arthur
This International Banks notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: a waterwheel (Noria) and aqueduct in Hama; welcome to new staff members; personals; who~^!!^s who in the Bank; international...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63962Date: February 1, 1951Author:
French, Harriet
This partial transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors held on Tuesday, January 16, 1951, covers only two proposed loans for the First Transport Project and the First Electricity Supply Commission...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 89484Date: January 16, 1951
These remarks were delivered by Eugene R. Black, President of the World Bank, in presenting before the Bankers' Club of Chicago on January 10, 1951. The author points out the importance of giving the under...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 125463Date: January 10, 1951Author:
Black,Eugene R.
This report is divided into ten chapters. The first of these analyzes certain general aspects of the Guatemalan economy and its fundamental problems. The six succeeding chapters examine in greater detail...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10773Date: January 1, 1951
The creditworthiness study on Chile points out that the extent to which balanced investment will proceed in Chile is really a determining factor in our lending policy towards that country. The purpose...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67027Date: November 13, 1950Author:
Larsen,Harold W ;
Torfs, Jacques
This press release announces three loans totaling twenty-five million four hundred thousand dollars have been granted to the Kingdom of Thailand on October 30, 1950.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 147140Date: October 30, 1950
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