This report records Bank loans to
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia for development projects
executed from 1949 to 1955, and required foreign exchange financing.
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L34Date: May 25, 1948
The European inland transport to operate
at top efficiency, full use must be made of the existing
network of rivers, canals, and inland ports, of the existing
fleet...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM80Date: May 21, 1948
Overseas Consultants, Inc. (OCI) was
retained by the U.S. War Department on June 30, 1947 to
survey the existing industrial capacity of Japan in order to
determine Japan's...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM88Date: May 7, 1948Author:
Gould, Joseph S. ;
Gilmartin, William M.
The Executive Branch estimates of ECA
financing by country and commodities were presented by the
Administrator to the House Appropriations Committee on April
20. The...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM87Date: May 7, 1948
The paper attempts to summarize the most
important ideas and a few of the facts contained in the
voluminous report prepared by the Research and Planning
Division of...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM86Date: May 4, 1948
Peruvian budget has been in deficit for
each of the past thirty years. There is no market outside
the banking system for government bonds, and deficit has
since 1930...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM90Date: May 1, 1948
This project involves the construction
of a new cold rolling and tin-plating plant for producing
thin steel sheets and strip in widths up to 42 inches.
Similarly equipment...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM85ADate: April 28, 1948
A substantial portion of the postwar
international migration has taken place in a highly
organized form on the basis of bilateral international
agreements. Ever since...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM81Date: April 14, 1948
This study examines the operational
performance of the Mexican National Railways from 1945
through 1947. It complements a previous study or war time
progress in breaking...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM79Date: April 13, 1948
Foreign direct investments in Brazil are
among the largest in Latin America. Their value may be
roughly estimated in the magnitude of $800 to$850,000,000 as
of 1946....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM78Date: April 9, 1948
This report primarily focuses on Title I
- The Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 (European Recovery of
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1948). It also contains
summaries...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM85Date: April 8, 1948
Although the Middle East accounts for
only a small proportion of world trade (about 2 percent of
the total dollar value in 1938), its exports occupy an
important place...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM84Date: April 6, 1948
Modern Turkey is a predominantly
agricultural country. Despite the efforts made by the
government since 1923 to further industrial development,
over 80 percent of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L251Date: March 31, 1948
Modern Turkey is a predominantly
agricultural country. Despite the efforts made by the
government since 1923 to further industrial development,
over 80 percent of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN3Date: March 31, 1948
The serious postwar shortage of rice
supplies has not only resulted in the underfeeding of
millions of people whose normal diet is mainly rice but has
also created an...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM77Date: March 31, 1948
This preliminary report is the fourth in
a series of Papers which the Eastern European Division of
the Bank's Loan Department is issuing to report on
conditions prevailing...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L250Date: March 31, 1948
The sale of U.S. surplus ships to
foreign-flag operators ended March 1, 1948. It was cut off
by legislation amending the Merchant Ship Sales Act to be
any further transfer...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM76Date: March 30, 1948
A summary of the salient features
surrounding the 1919/20 agricultural commodity price break
in the United States which may prove applicable to the
present period indicates...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM73Date: March 26, 1948
Situated in the northwestern part of
South America, Colombia has a coast line on both the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Agriculture plays the major
role in the Colombian...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L31Date: March 25, 1948
Peru is the third largest country in
South America. Agriculture and Mining production are the
principal bases of the Peruvian economy. Peru had a
favorable balance of...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L252Date: March 23, 1948
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