This report describes the outcome of a
meeting held on March 2, 1949, in which Mr. R. Busson,
President of the Banque de Syrie et du Liban expressed his
opinion on...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66872Date: March 11, 1949Author:
Bochenski, F.G.
In the present paper the monetary
mechanism of the French overseas dependencies is described
together with their foreign trade position. The latter is
viewed here solely...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 11216Date: March 10, 1949
A very high proportion of Colombian
exports go to the Western Hemisphere and there is thus no
problem of inconvertible currencies. Coffee exports (US$ 154
million in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66863Date: March 2, 1949
The external debt record of Panama is
closely connected with the treaty of 1903 between the United
States and Panama provic1ing facilities for the construction
and maintenance...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66865Date: March 2, 1949Author:
Lynch, James J.
The economy of Cuba furnishes the
inhabitants of that country a living standard that is among
the very highest of the Latin American republics. The
country's resources...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66866Date: March 1, 1949Author:
May, Stacy
This report discusses the Iraqi economy
which is based on oil and agriculture. The oil industry has
contributed its share to the progress of Iraq's
economy. The industry...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN7Date: February 25, 1949
The spectacular business boom in Cuba
since 1940 has not been paralleled by a corresponding
development of the financial organization of the Island. On
the one hand,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66861Date: February 18, 1949Author:
Villechaise, Jean
Based on preliminary studies, the
installation of a petroleum refinery in the Philippines
having a capacity of about 10,000 barrels of crude oil per
day offers very...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66858Date: February 9, 1949Author:
Rembert, E. Hayne
The rate of recovery of Belgium has been
uneven. It has been most striking in steel production, metal
manufactures and the generation of electric power, least
satisfactory...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66867Date: February 1, 1949Author:
Stevenson, A.
The rate of recovery of Belgium has been
uneven. It has been most striking in steel production, metal
manufactures and the generation of electric power, least
satisfactory...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66867Date: February 1, 1949Author:
Stevenson, A.
Basically, Mexico's economic
position at the beginning of World War II was still
essentially semi-colonial in nature. Subsistence agriculture
was still the predominant...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66854Date: January 30, 1949Author:
Lynch, James J.
Because of a combination of fortunate
circumstances and government policy, the pace of economic
recovery in Belgium since the war was extremely rapid.
Belgian material...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66856Date: January 25, 1949Author:
Stevenson, A.
Foreign investments in Cuba enjoy the
same rights to do business and to acquire property as Cuban
citizens and are subject to the same tax rates. There is no
government...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66864Date: January 24, 1949Author:
Villechaise, Jean
The present report has been prepared as
a result of the mission whom the Bank sent to Venezuela in
September 1948, the purpose of the mission, according to the
Minister's...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66853Date: January 24, 1949Author:
Urquidi, Victor L.
The notes give a short description of
eight Central American member countries. The conclusion of
each note gives the additional service which they could
carry without...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66850Date: January 19, 1949
The largest single use, to which tin
metal is put, is the coating of steel sheets to make
tinplate. Before the war, roughly two-fifths of the
world's annual tin consumption...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66851Date: January 18, 1949Author:
Grauman, Jacob ;
Rembert, Wayne E.
This discussion is concerned with the
urgency, productivity, and soundness of Bank loans in
support of ship investment. The existing merchant marine
embodies considerably...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66845Date: January 11, 1949
The Industrial Development Working Party
of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
convened in Shanghai on August 26, 1948 and was in
continuous session until...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM143Date: January 10, 1949Author:
Gould, Joseph S.
The four studies contained in this paper
are intended to throw light on the basic economic factors
which the Bank must examine in considering the recent U.K.
colonial...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66847Date: January 8, 1949
Paraguay is a potentially productive
agricultural country, landlocked between Argentina, Brazil
and Bolivia. Access to the sea is by way of about 900 miles
of waterways...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66844Date: January 6, 1949
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