Between 1951 and 1953 the Bank made five
loans to Iceland, totaling $5.9 million equivalent. These
loans helped to finance two hydroelectric power plants,
agricultural...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA67Date: January 28, 1957
Hydro power installations are regarded
in many quarters as one of the primary symbols of economic
development. There are, of course, real economic advantages
in hydro,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EC53Date: January 17, 1957
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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS57Date: December 31, 1956
This report talks about the role of
private foreign capital in the economic development of
Canada as of 1956. It has totally three parts as follows: 1)
Part I covers...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EC56Date: December 31, 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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS56ADate: December 14, 1956
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....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA66Date: December 4, 1956
These notes result from a hurried visit
to India from mid-April to mid-June, 1956. They are
therefore very sketchy and deliberately omit many important
topics which...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: C27Date: November 30, 1956
This report discusses about the economic
position and prospects of Australia as on November 1956. At
the turn of this century, Australia was primarily a pastoral
and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA65Date: November 30, 1956
The devaluation of the peso in April
1954 was the outstanding economic event of recent years in
Mexico. In the past two years its effects have been a
dominant influence...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: WH49Date: November 30, 1956
Chile's anti-inflation program,
which was launched at the end of 1955, has to date achieved
marked success. Unlike previous attempts at stabilization in
1953 and 1954,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: WH48Date: October 31, 1956
This report provides a review of
economic position and prospects of Italy as of 1956. Since
the Bank's most recent appraisal of Italian
creditworthiness in 1955, the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA64Date: October 4, 1956
The last economic report on Costa Rica
was dated August, 1954, and concluded that 'provided
the authorities do not change their present financial
policies and resort...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: WH50Date: September 30, 1956
Uruguay has good natural resources, with
the basic potential for further substantial economic growth.
Her income per head is already almost two and one half times
that...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: WH51Date: September 30, 1956
This preliminary report on the coffee
outlook has been prepared primarily to meet the Bank's
needs for estimates of member countries' prospective
earnings from coffee...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: TO119Date: August 31, 1956
The report, Current Economic Position
and Prospects of India was prepared in August 1956, and was
the result of an earlier mission to India. The report aimed
to examine...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: AS54Date: August 31, 1956
Between June 1951 and September 1953 the
Bank made five loans, on which $5.7 million is now
outstanding, for projects in Iceland. A disagreement then
arose when the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA63Date: August 31, 1956
This report discusses about the economic
position and prospects of Austria after the second world
war. It described how the revival of production was at first
accompanied...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA62Date: August 7, 1956
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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA60Date: June 30, 1956
The record of the last year and a half
has shown, first, indecision and setbacks and, then, an
effort waged with increasing determination to retrieve the
lost ground....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: EA61Date: June 30, 1956
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