The population of Peru is estimated at
7,575,000 at the beginning of 1948. During the next decade
the population of Peru is expected to grow by an average
rate of annual...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM71Date: March 17, 1948
With this mid-1947 census of the world
merchant fleet by magnitude, composition, and nationality,
there is initiated an ERM series to be kept current at
periodic intervals...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM67Date: March 2, 1948
The value of controlling interests of
United States enterprises in Honduras amounted to
$37,000,000 (book value) as of May 31, 1946. More than 60
percent was in agriculture,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM65Date: March 2, 1948
This study considers coal and coke
traffic only. It does so because (1) Europe needs to move
all the solid fuel she can as fast as her mines produce it;
(2) Today, as...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM70Date: March 1, 1948
This report is one of a series covering
the iron and steel industries of individual European
countries. This series will be consolidated into a unified
study of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM66Date: March 1, 1948
This report is one of a series covering
the iron and steel industries of the individual European
countries and is intended for consolidation later in a study
of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM64Date: March 1, 1948
This report records the general economic
conditions of Brazil for the year 1948. Brazil occupies
nearly half of the South American Continent. In area it is
the fourth...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L27Date: February 29, 1948
This study is concerned with transit
traffic along the inland waterways and through the ocean
ports of Northwest Europe. It compares pre-war with post-war
use of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM62Date: February 26, 1948
This report discusses four loans
contracted in London and Paris for inter-oceanic railway
construction in Honduras. Two of these loans were issued in
1867, one in 1869...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM63Date: February 26, 1948
In general, the supply of wheat
available to wheat consuming countries kept pace with the
increase in populations. This expansion in available wheat
supplies was due...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM61Date: February 24, 1948
There is every indication that available
coal supplies (including imports from the U.S.A.) exceed the
present European capacity to consume, limited as it is by
dollar...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM60Date: February 20, 1948
The Benelux Union joins Belgium and
Luxembourg, the world's largest prewar exporters of
iron and steel, with the Netherlands, the world's
second largest prewar importer...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM59Date: February 18, 1948
Sugar is obtained on a large scale from
two plants only: sugar beet and sugar cane. The two plants
do not complete for the same soils. No distinction is made
by consumers...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM69Date: February 18, 1948
The Commodity Market Break report
contains the following tables: (1) Relative Movements of
Spot and Future Commodities and Stocks; (2) Price Movements
of Selected Commodities;...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 28593Date: February 18, 1948
This report records the development of
African colonies in 1948. The general description of the
area and state of development in terms of physical
conditions, economic...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L38Date: January 1, 1948
Ethiopia, also known as Abyssinia, is an
inland country situated in northeast Africa. While great
elevations characteristics well over half of Ethiopia, the
country...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: L28Date: January 1, 1948
The report contains conclusions from
discussions with the Philippine Economic Mission. It begins
with a description of the economic problems facing the
Philippines at...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM147Date: January 1, 1948
Banking in India may be divided into two
categories : the organized banking system and indigenous
banking. Organized banking is of relatively recent origin
and is essentially...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: ERM140Date: January 1, 1948
The European countries need to import
from the U.S. timber equipment, do to the shortages caused
by the war. The import program is primarily concerned with
helping to...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 11214Date: December 31, 1947
A comparison of government employment
figures in the United States and in seven Marshall Plan
countries reveals that in the prewar years the percentage of
the respective...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 66887Date: December 15, 1947Author:
Ross,Murray
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