The present Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
combines the former Kingdom of Transjordan and the newly
annexed territories of Arab Palestine. As the new country
cannot produce...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67092Date: June 25, 1951Author:
Basch,Antonin
The estimated outstanding dollar debt of
Cuba amounted to $72.5 million at the end of 1950. This
consisted of two dollar bond issues, 1) 1941-1955 amounting
to $5 million,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67089Date: June 15, 1951Author:
Lynch, James J. ;
Beaufort, Carel de
In early 1951 the total external debt of
Panama was approximately $13 million. The major portion of
this debt, $10.5 million consists of the new Republic of
Panama 3...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67085Date: June 15, 1951Author:
Lynch,James J.
Transport projects are of primary
importance for the realization of 'an economic
development; program in Syria. Improved transportation is
necessary to market the projected...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67086Date: June 12, 1951Author:
Finne, Grace W.
The terms of reference of the technical
assistance mission to Iceland were broad: to survey the
present and investment program of the country and to make
recommendations...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67084Date: June 11, 1951Author:
Clark, E.Harrison
The key to higher standards of living in
Nicaragua lies, not in any considerable expansion of
industry, but in the development of more efficient
agricultural methods...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67080Date: May 25, 1951Author:
Waterston, Albert
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...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67083Date: May 25, 1951Author:
Finne, G. W.
The South of Italy is an underdeveloped
area within a developed country. It has all the
characteristics features of an underdeveloped country. But
it also has assets...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67096Date: May 21, 1951Author:
Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N.
Honduras is a country with an area of
150,000 square kilometers and a population of 105 million.
The terrain is mountainous, except on the North Coast, where
the banana...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67082Date: May 15, 1951Author:
Marrama, Vittorio
Ceylon is primarily agricultural. Little
industrial development has taken place, and about 85 percent
of the population is classified as rural. Essentially Ceylon
is...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN11Date: April 30, 1951
This report includes the following
headings: debt outstanding; service payments; external debt
of Iceland; and estimated interest and amortization payments
on the external...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67081Date: April 25, 1951Author:
Huang, Andrew C. ;
Clark, E. H.
Transport projects are of primary
importance for the realization of an economic development
program in Syria. Syria's recently acquired
independence (1946) and separation...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67077Date: April 20, 1951Author:
Finne, Grace W.
In January 1951 the public external debt
of the Belgian Congo outstanding or authorized, amounted to
the equivalent of United States (U.S.) $142 million. Almost
90 percent...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67079Date: April 16, 1951Author:
Huang, Andrew C.
Iceland ended the war with very large
foreign exchange reserves and exceptionally favorable export
markets. In consequence the country initiated a post-war
development...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67073Date: April 12, 1951Author:
Harrison Clark, E. ;
Robinson, H. W.
At the request of the Icelandic
government, a five-week survey was made of the present and
proposed investment program of Iceland. Preliminary
recommendations on the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67074Date: April 12, 1951Author:
Clark, E. Harrison
The institutions and agencies dealing
with the financing, planning and administration of economic
development in individual countries are numerous and varied.
In view...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67078Date: April 10, 1951
This report includes the following
headings: description of external debt, and its service
payments; external service payments; external debt of
Colombia; and estimated...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67075Date: April 10, 1951Author:
Lynch,James J.
The contrast between the present,
favorable financial position of Egypt and the country's
less favorable long term prospects has recently became more
accentuated. Per...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67071Date: April 5, 1951Author:
Bochenski, F. G.
At present the Colombian Government,
assisted by a non-partisan economic development Committee
(hereafter referred to as the committee) is engaged in: a
formulation...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67069Date: April 2, 1951Author:
Torfs, Jacques
In December 1946, the British Government
approved a scheme for the mechanized production of
groundnuts in British East Africa. The report outlining the
scheme envisaged...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67076Date: April 1, 1951Author:
Collier, J. H.
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