The purpose of this paper is to review
the recent market trends in sugar. Since the end of the war
world sugar production has been increasing. In view of the
expansion...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67134Date: January 29, 1952Author:
White, Flora
The Mexican Government and the
International Committee for Bankers on Mexico concluded on
November 5, 1942 an Agreement containing a settlement of
three secured Government...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67135Date: January 29, 1952Author:
Beaufort, Carel de ;
Manero, Alfonso ;
Reynolds, Irving
Recent figures for world food production
and demand have caused great concern, and the fear of
long-term food shortages has been expressed a number of
times. At present...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67130Date: January 24, 1952Author:
deVries, Egbert
Costa Rica is actively improving and
increasing agricultural and pastoral production on both
large and small holdings. The administrative and
institutional changes in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67125Date: January 22, 1952Author:
Larsen, Harold
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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67141Date: January 21, 1952Author:
Devries E
Economic development in Southern
Rhodesia is of very recent origin. In 1923 when Southern
Rhodesia secured responsible government, the European
population was only 35,000...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67128Date: January 17, 1952Author:
Kamarck, A. M.
The mission's most specific
recommendations deal exclusively with institutional reform.
The mission directed its efforts primarily toward
establishing an administrative...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67127Date: January 7, 1952Author:
Sokobin, Cynthia
This paper is concerned mainly with the
world's apparel wool situation over the past few years.
The world wool supply may be divided into two broad
categories - apparel...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67124Date: January 2, 1952Author:
Perkins, Maurice F.
On October l0, 195l the total
outstanding external debt of Paraguay was estimated at the
equivalent of United States (U.S.) $16.5 million. The major
portion of this...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67126Date: December 7, 1951Author:
Lynch,James J.
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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67123Date: November 29, 1951Author:
Lipkowitz, S.; Beltranena, M. C.
Demographically, the Paraguayan people
are the most homogenous in South America. They are quick to
learn even complicated mechanical processes, rather
efficient and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67111Date: November 15, 1951Author:
Montealegre, Jorge A.; Groenveld, Douwe
The shortage of food and raw materials
is one of the most serious problems the world and
particularly the British economy have to face. The demand
for primary products...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67115Date: November 14, 1951Author:
Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N.
This paper is a continuation of world
cotton production, consumption and trade written in July,
1948. This earlier study summarized the long term trends in
cotton which...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67122Date: November 8, 1951Author:
Perkins, M. F.
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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67112Date: October 25, 1951Author:
Groenveld, Douwe
Since the middle of last year, a
striking increase in the prices of most raw materials has
taken place. Since countries exporting primary commodities
mainly import manufactured...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67114Date: October 25, 1951Author:
Antoine, Jean-Claude
In order to measure the increase in the
real income and available resources of primary producing
countries resulting from the changes in international trade
since 1948-1949,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 11215Date: October 25, 1951
Colombia has good natural resources. In
the last decade, both agricultural and industrial output has
increased substantially more than population. Neither the
political...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67107Date: October 18, 1951Author:
Torfs, Jacques
This report includes the following
headings: present position of external debt and service
payments; history of dollar debt, sterling debt, Swedish
Krona debt; Swiss...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67072Date: October 17, 1951Author:
Fraser, W. D. S.
Unites States (U.S.) exports to
underdeveloped countries in 1950 represented a much smaller
percentage of the total value of U.S. production than in
1949. Two factors...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67109Date: October 15, 1951Author:
Chiesa, R. Dalla
Peru has a basically agricultural
economy; agricultural employs almost two-thirds of the
working population. Food crops are planted on 85percent of
the total area under...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67104Date: October 12, 1951Author:
Larsen, Harold
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