This is the fourth of a series of
memoranda whose object is to present a general picture of
major economic developments in the world, together with an
appraisal and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66892Date: June 9, 1949Author:
Varvaressos, K ;
Zafiriou, R
The principal economic pursuit of the
Lebanese people is agriculture: of a total population of 1.2
million, over 66 per cent are tilling the soil; trade
represents the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66891Date: June 8, 1949Author:
Bochenski, F.G.
Although Yugoslavia has just made
available to the Bank and Fund considerable amount of
economic information which had not previously been furnished
to the Bank or in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66889Date: June 3, 1949Author:
Ryshpan, Cicely A.
The range of difference in labor
productivity among the major European iron and steel
producers is extremely wide; in some cases one
country's rate of output per man-year...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66954Date: June 1, 1949
Fishing and the export of fish and fish
products, which fluctuate widely and unpredictably from year
to year with variations in volume of fish caught, are the
mainstay...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66890Date: June 1, 1949Author:
Tibbits, G. D.
The fundamental elements of
Mexico's credit worthiness have been assessed by a bank
mission in the summer of 1948 after the first devaluation of
the Mexican peso. The...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66888Date: May 31, 1949Author:
Fleurieu, G. de
This report on Turkeys public debt
begins with a summary of its external debt, beginning in the
1850s. The next section describes the direct external bonded
indebtedness...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66885Date: May 24, 1949
This report discusses Brazils external
credit situation in 1949. Many changes are probable in the
Brazilian balance of payments and in Government economic
policies....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66884Date: May 6, 1949Author:
Larsen,Harold W
The tendency of Brazil's
international trade shows the necessity of controlling
imports while balance of payment difficulties exist.The
report recognizes that further...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66955Date: April 26, 1949
This report discusses India as a credit
risk. The service of domestic debt accounts for about 12-1/2
percent of its ordinary expenditure. Except for the dollar
obligation...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66883Date: April 25, 1949Author:
Basch, Antonin
This report on the economy of Turkey in
1949 begins with a description of the government and foreign
policy. It next goes into the structure of the Turkish
economy,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66881Date: April 22, 1949Author:
Clark, E. Harrison
This historic report on Turkey's
public debt begins with a history of its external debt
payments, beginning in the 1870s. The next section describes
the direct external...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66882Date: April 21, 1949Author:
Lynch,James J.
When operating substantially at capacity
in 1929, the French iron and steel industry produced about
51 million tons of iron ore, 10.1 million tons of pig iron,
9.7 million...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66879Date: April 20, 1949Author:
Grauman, J. ;
Rembert, E.W.
It is estimated that in 1949 the
outstanding external long-term debt of Chile will be $310
million. Total service payments will amount to about $21.3
million in that...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66876Date: April 19, 1949Author:
Lynch,James J.
Apparel wool is the most important
foreign exchange earning commodity for Uruguay, accounting
for, on the average, 40 percent of the country's value
of total exports....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66878Date: April 13, 1949Author:
Perkins, M.F. ;
Lund, J.T.
The restoration of equilibrium in the
U.S. balance of trade is the necessary, though not
sufficient, condition upon which the smooth expansion of
international trade...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66874Date: April 13, 1949Author:
Marrama, Vittorio
A major change in the Canadian petroleum
position is occurring. Although oil production began in
Canada in 1862, only three years after it began in the
United States,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66873Date: March 30, 1949Author:
Lipkowitz, Sanuel ;
Verhulst, Michel
The purpose of this report is to answer,
without undertaking any detailed economic study, the two
questions: 1) whether, if Portugal became a member of the
Fund and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66868Date: March 18, 1949Author:
Robinson, Herbert W.
This report discusses jute production
and the prospects for marketing it in the United States.
According to this report, in 1949 Jute is the foremost
container fabric...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66875Date: March 18, 1949Author:
Perkins, Maurice F.
The future pattern of the Chilean
balance of payments is likely to be mainly determined by the
following considerations: (a) Chile's capacity to
maintain the volume...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66869Date: March 16, 1949Author:
Torfs, Jaeques ;
Larsen, Harold
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