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Participants in the Fifteenth Annual General Training Program photographed
with Bank president George D. Woods. (L to R): Atilio Gonzales from Peru,
Marcelo Avila from Ecuador, John Spicer from Australia, G. V. N . Reddy
from India, Abdulkadir El-Qadi from Jordan, Miss Mileva Gojnic from Yugo
slavia, Mr. Woods, Stephen Mbamarah from Nigeria, Udhir Thapa from Nepal,
Sayed Baha from Afghanistan and Reginald de Mel from Ceylon.
WELCOME TO NEW STAFF-DECEMBER
(Seated L to R): Margarita Tsinanopoulou, Administration Department, from
Athens; Susanna Manlapaz, Treasurer's Department, from Quezon City, Philip
pines; Renate Mayes, Department of Operations-Europe, from Kansas City;
Mary Rapko, Department of Operations-Western Hemisphere, from Windsor,
Canada; Gail Connolly, Economic Staff, from Tampa, Florida; Velma Baker,
Treasurer's Department, from Halifax, Canada; and Anke Jurgens, Depart
ment of Operations-Western Hemisphere, from Valdivia, Chile.
(Standing L to R): Kathleen Flaherty, Treasurer's Department, from Bethesda,
Maryland; lnge Enzinger, Economic Staff, from Linz, Austria; Annemarie
Schrammel, I.F.C., from Vienna; Giuseppe Monterastelli, Administration De
partment, from Fanano, Modena, Italy; Jean Jones, I.F.C., from Kingston,
Jamaica; Mary Baggett, Administration Department, from Epsom, England;
and Lillian Anton, Legal Department, from Windsor, Canada.
VOL. 17, No.2 INTERNATIONAL BANK NOTES FEBRUARY 1963
CONTENTS
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Published monthly by the Personnel Division, Internationa~ Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, Washington 25, D.C.
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PICTURE
OUR COVE'R ,
The fifteenth Annual General Training Program of the Bank, which began
on January 11, 1963, is made up of nine men and one woman representing
member countries from Africa to Australia. The participants arrived in Wash
ington at a time when a mantle of white was unfolded instead of the traditional
red carpet. They are all looking forward to the warmer weather everyone tells
them is "normal" for Washington. Their arrival brings the number of par
ticipants since the beginning of this program to 130 from 62 of the Bank's
81 member countries.
During the course of training, which lasts into July, the participants study
the organization and administration of the Bank, lending techniques, proce
dures by which bonds are marketed, various types of technical assistance, and
methods used in analyzing projects. Study is also given to development eco
nomics, national income statistics, and balance of payments techniques; and
the trainees visit industrial, commercial and financial institutions in the United
States.
The participants were nominated by officials of the Bank's member countries
and their selection by the Bank was based on individual merit, after thorough
examination of their qualifications. All of them have specialized in or are
working in fields of finance and economics.
Yugoslavia has sent us Mileva Gojnic who is enjoying the distinction of
being the only woman in the group. She was educated at the University of
Belgrade and the London School of Economics and is an Assistant Department
Director of the Yugoslav Investment Bank in Belgrade.
Atilio Gonzales, from Lima, Peru, was elected the first Chairman of the
group. He is an economist on the staff of the Peruvian Ministry of Finance
and attended the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria and the Economic Studies
Institute of San Marcos University. Mr. Gonzales has discovered a South
American neighbor in the group, Marcelo Avila from Quito, Ecuador. Mr.
Avila received degrees from · both Central University in Quito and Monterrey's
Technological Institute in Mexico. He is also an economist with the Research
Department of the Central Bank of Ecuador.
Keeping the group entertained with his .songs is the representative from
Nigeria, Stephen Mbamarah. Mr. Mbamarah also boasts the largest family of
the group with four children anxiously awaiting his return to Lagos. He is
an administrative officer in the Economic Planning Unit of the Federal Min
istry of Economic Development in Lagos and received his training at the
University College of Ghana.
On the quieter side we have Mr. G. V. N. Reddy from New Delhi and
Mr. Sayed Baha from Kabul, Afghanistan. Both men work for their govern
ments, the former as a Research Officer on the staff of the Ministry of Finance,
and the latter as General Director of Programs and Projects in the Ministry
of Planning. Mr. Reddy attended Madras University, Annamalai University,
Madras State and the Delhi School of Economics. Mr. Baha is a graduate of
Kabul University, Afghanistan, the American University of Beirut and Vander
bilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Leaving behind a new son is no easy task but Adbulkadir EI-Qadi did when
he came to Washington. Mr. EI-Qadi is no stranger to the States having studied
at the University of Oregon and Humbolt State College in California. After the
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course is over he will resume his posts of father and Assistant to the General
Manager of the Jordan National Bank.
Udhir Thapa, from Nepal, finds the Washington monument pretty insig
nificant compared to Mt. Everest though he admits he is not inclined to climb
either. Mr. Thapa was educated at Harichandra College, Banares Hindu Uni
versity and Allahabad University in India. He is Chief of the Inspection
Department of the Nepal Central Bank at Kathmandu.
Reginald de Mel and his wife are both far away from their home in Ceylon.
Mrs. de Mel is visiting in London while her husband studies in Washington.
A Staff Officer of the Central Bank of Ceylon, Mr. de Mel received his edu
cation at the University of Ceylon and Cambridge University, England.
Australia's representative, John Spicer, adjusted to his new life with speed
and ease and gave the first party for the group. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Sidney and is a Research Officer in Credit Policy in the Banking
Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
To all ten trainees we say good luckr It's nice having you with us.
Department of Operations·
AFRICA
Just when (and, some would say, how) the new Africa Department was
conceived is not part of recorded Bank history. Premonitory kicks were being
felt in, or rather by, other parts of the Bank towards the end of 1961, but the
Department of Operations-Africa was not delivered into the waiting arms
of the Bank until April 2, 1962 (April 1, luckily, not being a working day).
As yet it was a small and incomplete infant. Nevertheless, it had to accept
at once the responsibilities of an operating department and to go straight to
work. Fortunately, it had received from its parents a smaU but invaluable
nucleus of experienced staff; a strong pair of shoulders from the Europe, Africa
and Australasia Department and a vigorous rump from South Asia and Middle
East. The head was found outside the Bank and there was promise that the
remainder of the baby would follow rapidly in the ensuing months. Except,
of course, that the Department had to find its own feet.
The Africa Department was given essentially the same functions as regards
its own countries as those of the other area departments, that is, responsibility
for "developing and conducting the Bank's operational relationships with
member states in the area." The Department does, however, have its special
problems. Not only is it new and in the process of establishing itself as an effi
cient working organization, but this is even more true of most of the countries
with which it deals. Many of the countries of Africa must be numbered among
the least developed, politically and administratively as well as economically: the
need for financial and technical assistance is very great, but so also are the prob
lems in making this aid available from the Bank and IDA and in ensuring that it
can be effectively used. Furthermore, the new African states are generally un
familiar with the Bank and its ways, .and it is likely to be some time before
familiarity with criteria and loan operations leads to more comfortably
established working relationships.
To head the new Department, which will be responsible for almost a
third of the Bank's membership, the Management persuaded Pierre Moussa
to give up the position of Director of Civil Aviation in France to come to the
Bank, and to give up Paris to come to Washington. Africa was in fact Pierre
Moussa's first love and, as his writings on the subject show, he has a keen
interest in, and understanding of, the problems of underdeveloped countries.
He has quickly come to grips with his new assignment and has fortunately
shown an equal understanding of the problems of an underdeveloped depart
ment. He has received much more than titular assistance from John Williams,
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the Assistant Director, who came from the old European Department and who, as
it happened, had already worked with (and sometimes against) Pierre Moussa
when the latter was Director of Economic Affairs for Overseas France and the
Bank was negotiating loans in French West and Equatorial Africa. The twO
secretaries in the directorial suite, Germaine Gagnon and Shirley Armstrong,
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DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIONS-AFRICA
(Seated L to R): Sylvette Jouclas, Virginia Weyrich, Shirley Armstrong, John H.
Williams, Pierre L. Moussa, Germaine Gagnon, Maria Tieslink, Frederique
Jennette, Gloria Ataviado and Aline Cerceo.
(Standing L to R): Mahmud Burney, Andre Volait, Norman Horsley, Lars
Kalderen, Ragaei EI Mallakh, Robert Assa, Sue Priestland, Ethna Brennan, S.
Noel McIvor, Jean-Pierre Gern, Arie Kruithof, Joseph Fajans, Robert Skillings
and Martijn Paijmans.
Unable to be present for group photograph: 1. Florence Gaudet, 2. Marlene
Mangum, 3. Valda Hudson, 4. Xavier Fradin de la Renaudiere, 5. Antoine
LeClerc, 6. Jean-Marie Jentgen, 7. Arnold Rivkin, 8. Andrew M. Kamarck,
9. Cyrus Samii, 10. Bo Erik Thome, 11. Franz Lutolf, 12. Ponnambalam Wig
naraja, 13. Leon B-aranski, 14. Andre Nespoulous-Neuville and 15. P. S. Narayan
Prasad.
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have qualities of charm, cheerfulness and efficiency which make even the most
frustrating and difficult moments there seem smooth and pleasant.
The "front office" is completed by the Department's two economic advisers.
Andrew M. Kamarck, the senior adviser, came to the Bank from the U.S.
Treasury twelve years ago to work on Africa, and is a founder member of the
Africa Department. His secretary, Virginia Weyrich, has been associated with
the African work of the Bank from the very beginning, having been the main
stay of the African section of the Economic Staff. Arnold Rivkin, the other
adviser and a member of DAS, recently joined us from the Center for Inter
national Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has had con
siderable experience in Africa, partly on behalf of the U.S. Government. The
economic advisers have the threefold responsibility of advising the Director,.
supervising the work of the Department's economists and directing economic
missions.
For the present, Arie Kruithof has, numerically and geographically, much the
largest division. His charges include not only the countries of Northeast Africa
he brought with him from the South Asia and Middle East Department, but also
the group of central African countries which he has temporarily inherited from
Jo Fajans. His domain covers Libya to the Congo and Cameroon to Somalia, and
although some of his countries may have territorial ambitions, he has none. His
assistant operations officers are Mahmud Burney, also an old South Asia man, and
a newcomer, Xavier de la Renaudiere, formerly with the French Ministry of
Transport. There are two economists in the division, both new to the Bank,
Cyrus Samii from Iran's Plan Organization and Martijn Paijmans from the EEC
in Brussels.
In fact it is difficult to distinguish economists from operations officers in the
Department, either by length of hair or by function. Antoine Le Clerc, .for
example, newly j1 0ined Noel McIvor's division as assistant operations officer after
a long spell in the French Caisse Centrale and Bureau de Recherches Geologiques
et Minieres and promptly found himself the economist on a mission to Liberia.
Conversely, Norman Horsley, who came from the practice of economic planning
in Libya and the theory thereof at Williams College and thought he had joined
the division as economist, was plunged straightway into operations. There are
undoubtedly advantages to familiarity with both sides of the work, and the De
partment hopes to avoid any rigid separation between economics and loan
operations. Noel McIvor's division is also a large one, nine c0untries in a com
pact West African triangle from Sierra Leone to Niger and Nigeria. He is twice
a newcomer to the Bank, once in 1954 and again in 1960: the intervening years
were allegedly spent on the banks of the Thames milking cows (and the British
consumer) for the New Zealand Dairy Commission. He has experienced
assistance from Jean-Marie Jentgen, formerly an economist on African coun
tries with the European Department.
Northwest Africa, from Guinea to the Maghreb, is the province of Robert
Skillings, another of those who have grown old and wise in the service of the
Bank and who now form the backbone of the Department. Between stamp
auctions he has gained a considerable experience in Africa. His assistant
operations officer, Andre Volait, is also familiar with Africa through his work
as a French civil servant overseas. Jean-Pierre Gern, who, like Andre Volait,
is a recent addition to the staff, comes from the Basle Center for Economic and
Financial Research, where he worked on African monetary and fiscal problems.
With Bo Erik Thome, formerly of the Economic Staff, he makes up the economic
strength of the division. It is quite typical of the pressure on the Department
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THE WORLD BANK GROUP AN,D AFRICA
Fifteen African countries are now members of the World Bank and hold
membership in IDA and IFC as well. All of the remaining independent coun
tries of Africa, numbering eighteen, have applied for membership in the Bank
and IDA, and seven are seeking IFC membership as well. Other areas of Africa
have access to our organizations through the United Kingdom, Spain and
Portugal, which retain territorial responsibilities on the Continent.
Unloading cargo at the Apapa Quay at the Port of Lagos, Nigeria. The number of berths
at the Apapa Quay will be increased with the aJIistance of funds from a $13.5 million
World Bank loan made to the Nigerian Ports Authority on December 10, 1962.
Our organizations have committed nearly a billion dollars for development
In some 20 African countries and territories, with the Bank taking the larger
share:
Loans, Credits and Investment in Africa
Organization No. Operations Amount
World Bank 43 loans $970,100.000
IDA 3 credits 20,800.000
IFC 3 investments 7,800,000
49 operations $998,700,000
More than half of this financing is assisting the development of transport
facilities urgently needed to improve and speed transportation both within the
countries concerned and with the rest of the world. Another quarter is helping
to develop and expand electric power generation and distribution, and sizeable
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View of a sugar cane field, part of a pilot project connected with lPG's $2.8 million
investme'TJt in the Kilombero Sugar Company, Ltd. (KSC), made on June 3, 1960, to
grow and mill sugar cane and produce refined sugar for the Tanganyika market.
amounts have been made available for industry and agriculture. The following
table illustrates the purposes of the Group's financing operation on the
Continent:
Purposes Amount
Transportation $502,000,000
Electric Power 247,400,000
Industry 127,800,000
Agriculture 72,100,000
Telecommunications 4,400,000
Education 5,000,000
General Development 40,000,000
$998-;700;000
Transportation lending covers a broad spectrum. It includes Bank financing of
large scale modernization and expansion of existing railways in West Africa,
the Congo (Leopoldville), East Africa, the Rhodesias, South Africa and the
Sudan; and of a new 400 mile line in Nigeria. Other Bank loans are helping
to improve ocean ports in South and East Africa and Nigeria, and a new lake
port in former Ruanda-Urundi; river transport in the Congo and the Suez
Canal. Highway modernization and extension have been financed by the Bank
in Ethiopia, the Congo and Kenya and by IDA in Swaziland; and the Bank
has helped finance a large oil pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean.
All power financing in Africa has been done by the Bank. Included is a
loan for the 600,000 K.W. Kariba Gorge Hydroelectric Station on the Zambesi
River in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and further loans to
Southern Rhodesia for thermal power stations. South Africa has used the
proceeds of three loans to finance part of the cost of installing over 1.4 million
kilowatts of new generating capacity and to add some 3,500 circuit miles to
power lines. Other power loans are assisting the huge Volta River Scheme in
Ghana and power projects in Algeria and Uganda.
Continued on p. 12
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The "population explosion" in the Bank's African Department is an effect,
albeit a side one, of the unprecedented outpouring of new states in Africa in
the last decade.
In 1951 there were only four independent states on the continent, today
twelve years later-there are thirty-three.
The first postwar state to be born on the African continent was the Kingdom
of Libya on Christmas Eve 1951. It was followed four years later by the birth
of three more independent states, the Republic of Sudan, the Kingdom of
Morocco and the Republic of Tunisia. In 1957 and 1958 the Republics of
Ghana and Guinea respectively joined the ranks of independent states, and
then, in 1960, the procession of new African states began in earnest with the
birth of seventeen new states. Most of these were former French territories in
West and Equatorial Africa, but also included were two of the largest terri
tories on the continent, both non-French, the Congo (Leopoldville) and Nigeria.
In 1961, the birth rate tapered off and two new states joined the growing
number of independent states, viz. Sierra Leone and Tanganyika. In 1962, the
birth rate picked up aga!n and four new independent African states appeared
on the world scene-Burundi, Rwanda, Algeria and Uganda.
The procession of new states has not yet ended; there are more to come,
perhaps as many as fifteen more new states may emerge in Africa. Most
immediately in the offing, later this year or in 1964, are the independence of
the only remaining British West-Africa territory, Gambia, and of one of the
two remaining British East-Africa territories, Kenya.
As a handy guide and in order to sort out this great proliferation of new
states which are becoming increasingly active in the operations of the Bank,
IDA and IFC, we are reproducing the chart inside this page which covers all
of the independent countries as of this date, with the size of their populations,
their capital cities, dates of accession to independence, forms of government
and heads of state.
The chart is an advanced extract from a series of tables in the forthcoming
book, The African Presence in World Affairs by staff member Arnold Rivkin,
scheduled for publication this fall by The Free Press of Glencoe (a division of
the Macmillan Company).
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INDEPENDENT AFRICAN STATES IN ORDER OF ACCESSION TO INDEPENDENCE
Population Date of Proclamation Present
Country (1961 Est.)· Capital of Independence Status Head of State Designation
ETHIOPIA 22,000,000 (1960) Addis Ababa Empire is consolidation of
earlier independent king
doms dating from ancient
times. Empire H.M. Haile Selassie I Emperor
LIBERIA 1,085,000 (1960) Monrovia July 26, 1847 Republic William V. S. Tubman President
REPUBLIC OF
SOUTH AFRICA 16,122,000 Cape Town May 31, 1910 Republic Charles R. Swart President
U.A.R. (EGYPT) 26,578,000 Cairo February 28, 1922 Republic Col. Gamel Abdel Nasser President
LIBYA 1,216,000 Tripoli and Benghazi December 24, 1951 Kingdom H.M. King Idris I King
SUDAN 12,109,000 Khartoum January 1, 1956 Republic Gen. Ibrahim Abboud President
MOROCCO 11,925,000 Rabat March 2, 1956 Kingdom Hassan II King
TUNISIA 4,168,000 (1960) Tunis March 20, 1956 Republic Habib Bourguiba President
GHANA 6,943,000 Accra March 6, 1957 Republic Dr. Kwame Nkrumah President
GUINEA 3,000,000 (1960) Conakry October 2, 1958 Republic Ahmed Sekou Toure President
FEDERAL REPUBLIC
OF CAMEROUN 4,097,000 (1960) Yaounde January 1, 1960 Republic Ahmadou Ahidjo President
ToGO 1,480,000 Lome April 27, 1960 Republic Nicholas Grunitsky PreSident
SENEGAL 2,980,000 Dakar June 20, 1960 Republic Leopold Sedar Senghor President
MALI 4,100,000 (1960) Bamako June 20, 1960 Republic Modibo Keita President
MALAGASY 5,577,000 Tananarive June 26, 1960 Republic Philibert Tsiranana President
CONGO REPUBLIC 14,150,000 (1960) Leopoldville June 30, 1960 Republic Joseph Kasavubu President
SOMALIA 2,030,000 Mogadiscio July 1, 1960 Republic Aden Abdullah Osman President
DAHOMEY 2,050,000 Porto Novo August 1, 1960 Republic Hubert Maga President
NIGER 2,870,000 (1960) Niamey August 3, 1960 Republic Hamani Diori President
UPPER VOLTA 4,400,000 Ouagadougou August 5, 1960 Republic Maurice Yameogo President
iVORY COAST 3,300,000 Abidjan August 7, 1960 Republic Felix Houphouet-Boigny President
CHAD 2,680,000 Fort Lamy August 11, 1960 Republic Francois Tombalbaye President
CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC 1,227,000 (1960) Bangui August 13, 1960 Republic David Dacko President
REPUBLIC OF CONGO 795,000 (1958) Brazzaville August 15, 1960 Republic Abbe Fulbert Youlou President
GABON 440,000 (1960) Libreville August 17, 1960 Republic Leon M'Ba President
FEDERATION OF
NIGERIA 35,752,000 Lagos October 1, 1960 Dominion Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe Governor-General
MAURITANIA 740,000 (1960) Nouakchott November 28, 1960 Islamic Republic Moktar auld Daddah President
SIERRA LEONE 2,470,000 (1960) Freetown April 27, 1961 Dominion Henry Lightfoot Boston Governor-General
TANGANYIKA 9,404,000 Dar-es-Salaam December 9,1961 Republic Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere President
BURUNDI 2,500,000 Usumbura July 1, 1962 Kingdom M warn buts a IV Mwami
RWANDA 3,000,000 Kigali July 1,1962 Republic Gregoire Kayibanda Premier
ALGERIA 11,020,000 (1960) Algiers July 3, 1962 Republic Ahmed Benbella Premier
UGANDA 6,845,000 Entebbe October 9, 1962 Dominion Sir Walter Coutts Governor-General
"Unless otherwise stated figures are for mid-1961. If given, estimates are those in United Nations, MONTHLY BULLETIN OF STATISTICS, July 1962. Exceptions are EthioJ
Liberia, Mauritania, from FAa AFRICAN SURVEY: Rome, 1962, p. 16; Republic of Congo, as of January 1, 1959, from United Nations, DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK, 1960, N
York 1961; and Burundi and Rwanda, from THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 1,1962 (for which the United Nations gives a combined 1961 population of 4,980,000).
Continued from p. 9
Two mining projects, both financed by the Bank, account for over three
quarters of industrial financing by the Group. One project covers development
of iron ore deposits in Mauretania, the other manganese deposits in Gabon.
The Bank has also made two loans to a development Bank in Ethiopia and a
loan to a development bank in Morocco. The IFC's $8,700,000 of investments
in African industry have been made in Tanganyika, Tunisia and Morocco. In
Tanganyika, IFC joined with English, Dutch and local investors in establishing
a sugar mill which has now been in operation for six months. In Tunisia, where
no local capital was available, IFC joined with a Swedish and an American
company to finance the establishment of a Tunisian company which is now
constructing a triple-phosphate fertilizer plant at the port of Sfax. In Morocco,
IFC has just joined investors of Morocco and five other countries as a share
holder of the Banque Nationale pour le Developpement Economique. This
was the first time IFC and the World Bank had engaged in a combined opera
tion, the IFC investment following a Bank loan by less than a month.
Part of an afforestation scheme in Swaziland through which a highway, financed by a
$2.8 million IDA credit, will extend for 112 miles across the country from the border
of South Africa on the west and Mozambique on the east, linking Swaziland's laf'gesl
10wns with its mosl productive agricultural, forestry and mineral areas.
Over two-thirds of Bank and IDA financing for agriculture in Africa has been
for two irrigation projects in the Sudan, the Managil Project and the Roseires
Project. The remaining agricultural loans in Africa, all made by the Bank,
are assisting programs for development and improvement of native agriculture
in Kenya, the Congo and Southern Rhodesia.
Two Bank Loans in Ethiopia are helping to rehabilitate and extend internal
and external telecommunications there. An IDA credit to Tunisia is financing
part of the cost of secondary and technical school construction. General devel
opment lending by the Bank relates entirely to a loan made in 1951 to the
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Equipment at work on the construction of a new road between Embu and Meru, near
Mount Kenya, Kenya. A World Bank loan of $5.6 million, made in May 1960, is
assisting the development of agriculture in Kenya and building roads connecting
production and marketing points with the main road network.
then BeJgian Congo to help cover the foreign exchange costs of a 10-year
development program started in that year.
Over and above its lending activities, the Bank has provided advice and
assistance on development problems in Africa. General survey missions have
examined the economies of Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Tanganyika and Uganda.
The Bank's Development Advisory Service has sent members of its staff to
advise the Governments of Ghana, Libya and Nigeria on economic and financial
matters related to their development. On behalf of the United Nations Special
Fund, the Bank served as Executing Agency of the Niger Dam Survey in
Nigeria; and the Bank on its own is studying a feeder road program in the
same country. In Tunisia the Bank is assisting a study leading to adoption of a
school construction program. Finally, Sir William Iliff, then Vice-President
of the Bank, assisted by our new President, Mr. George D. Woods, mediated
the settlement of claims and counterclaims between the United Arab Republic
and shareholders of the Suez Canal Company that arose from nationalization
of the Suez Canal in 1956. Later, our former President, Mr. Eugene R. Black,
helped to negotiate settlement of financial claims between the United Kingdom
and the United Arab Republic which also arose from the Suez incident.
Track to be used in the construction of a
railway line from Port Etienne to Fort
Gouraud in Mauritania, being built with Textile mill outside Addis Ababa which was
the help of a Bank loan, which will be used modernized with funds from the Ethiopian
to transport iron ore from a new mine at Development Bank to which World Bank
Fort Gouraud. loans were made in 1950 and 1961.
Continued from p. 7
that in the short time Erik Thome has been with it he has already been on
missions to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Morocco.
The Department recently succeeded in getting Franz Lutolf out of South
Asia to take charge of a division comprising the East African countries
of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, and, for added spice, Malagasy. He has only
one assistant, Lars Kalderen, from the Swedish Central Bank. Those Virginians
who have lately been astonished by the sight of a ski party careening through
the Lake Barcroft area need look no further than the Kalderen family for an
explanation.
Some two years ago Leonard Rist was appointed the Bank's Special Repre
sentative in Africa, to maintain contact particularly with those countries no
longer dependencies of a metropolitan member and not yet members of the
Bank in their own right. They did not always know what the Bank was and
IDA was a still greater mystery, particularly in French speaking territories
where the initials inevitably became AID. For the past two years Leonard
Rist has been on an almost continuous pilgrimage through the continent,
explaining the Bank and its operations to new and potential members. The
measure of his success is the number of applications for membership in the
Bank and its affiliates from newly-independent African states. He recently
relinquished this role to take up a new and still more challenging assignment
as Special Adviser to the Management.
Within the last few months the Bank has assigned Resident Representatives
to develop relationships with two African countries : Leon Baranski to Ghana
and Joseph Fajans to Nigeria. Leon Baranski, a former Executive Director of
the Bank and a central banker of great experience, is now with the DAS. Jo
Fajans has been with the Bank since its very early days and, until his assignment
to Nigeria, was chief of the Central Africa division of the Department. The
longest established of the Bank's DAS personnel in Africa is Narayan Prasad,
formerly Assistant Director of the Economic Staff, who has been serving as eco
nomic adviser to the Prime Minister of Nigeria for over two years. Ponna
Wignaraja, from the Central Bank of Ceylon and now also of DAS, went to
Accra with Leon Baranski to advise the Ghana Planning Commission. More
recently, Andre Nespoulous-Neuville has been assigned as economic adviser
to the Prime Minister of Libya who, having to work in two capitals, has
arranged for our man in Libya to have two houses, two cars, etc., which of
course, is why the Bank sent someone with two names.
Growing pains have at times been apparent as the Department has matured.
Staff shortages and the increasing list of new member countries have combined
to place a heavy burden on the small group of old hands for new boys are in
the majority in the Department. The average age of the professional staff, as of
February 7, was approximately 38.6257 years, and some of the girls are said to be
even younger. The staff has now been built up to something approaching full
strength and the newcomers are rapidly settling into place. Altogether, the
staff embraces sixteen nationalities with six out of a total of thirty-seven who
have changed their nationality. Those whose mother-tongue is French are still
numerous though it is simply not true that Robert Assa's appointment as the
Department's own translator was made necessary on this account. The main
preoccupations now are space and secretaries. The Department's small but
valiant band of secretaries has maintained its charming and cheerful efficiency
and willingness under pressure. With the Spring come hopes for reinforcements
and a little more elbow room for all.
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NEW PROFESSIONAL S1 AF F
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Mirza T. Baig, a U.S. citizen, is an Operations Officer in the Depart
ment of Operations-Far East. He came to the Bank on January 14
from the U.S. Department of Commerce where he had been an Inter
national Economist in the Far East Division since 1960. Reared and
educated in Pakistan and England, Mr. Baig has his B.A. in economics
from Harvard University and attended the London School of Modern
Languages for two years. He commutes daily from Arlington.
Xavier Fradin de la Renaudiere, from France, with the Department
of Operations-Africa since January 11, was Head of the International
Division of the French Ministry of Transport from 1957 until he came
to Washington. He had been Assistant to the Head of this same office
from 1954-56 and from 1956-57 worked as Assistant to the Director
Mr. Baig
of Credit Naval, a credit and investment bank. Mr. Fradin de la
Renaudiere has his licence from the University of Paris, his diploma
from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and attended the Ecole
Nationale d'Administration in Paris. Mrs. Fradin de la Renaudiere and
their little girl will join him in Washington later this year.
James H. Jennings, a Financial Analyst with the Industry Division of
the Technical Operations Department since January 2, has his B.A.
from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He worked as a
Tax and Insurance Supervisor in the First Federal Savings and Loan
Association in Nashville during the year 1952-53 before joining Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. He participated in their Junior
Executive Training Program during 1953-1955 and has been an
Account Executive in their Charlotte, North Carolina office since then.
Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, who is French, have three sons and a daughter.
The family has settled in Bethesda.
Robert J. Muscat, an American, came to the Department of Opera
tions~Far East on January 2 and left Washington for Kuala Lumpur
at the end of January. He will serve in the Economic Divisio~ of the
Treasury of the Federation of Malaya Government for a period of up
to three years. Mr. ¥uscat has spent the last four and a half years in
Bangkok in the Program Planning office of the AID Mission. He has
his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and is completing his
Ph.D. dissertation at the present time. The Muscats have two sons, the
eldest four years old and the baby just a year old.
Harry C. Phillips, Jr. has been with the Industry Division of the
Technical Operations Department since January 2. As an industrial
engineer, Mr. Phillips has spent most of the past ten years overseas.
From 1954-57 he worked with W. R. Grace and Company in Lima,
Peru, and from 1957-61 was with AID in Manila assigned to the
Philippine Industrial Development Center as Advisor for Industrial
Engineering and Management Training. From 1961 until coming to
Washington, Mr. Phillips was AID's Regional Industry Officer in
Mr. Muscat
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Ecuador. He is a graduate of the U.S. Maritime Academy and the
University of North Carolina. The Phillipses have four sons and two
daughters ranging in age from fifteen down to almost four. The whole
family enjoys sailing so they have bought a house outside Alexandria
dose to where they can keep a boat.
Ahmad Tuqan, a Jordanian with the Education Division of the Tech
nical Operations Department, started his two-year appointment on
January 1. He is not a newcomer to the Bank having served as the
Head of the Bank's Educational Mission to Afghanistan in 1962 and
as a Consultant with the Mission to Tunisia in 1961-62. Mr. Tuqan
Mr. Phillips has spent many years in the teaching and educational administration
field in Palestine and Jordan. He has worked with UNESCO since
1954 on secondment to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,
most recently serving in Beirut as Deputy Director of their Educalion
and Training Department. Mr. Tuqan is a graduate of American Uni
versity of Beirut and New College, Oxford. Only one of their four
children-a sixteen year old daughter-has come to Washington with
Mr. and Mrs. Tuqan. The have found an apartment on Cathedral
Avenue.
Sir Ernest Vasey, an Englishman who has lived and worked in Africa
for a number of years, started a two-year appointment with the Devel
Mr. Tuqan
opment Services Department on January 3. He first went to Kenya
as a businessman in 1936 from Shrewsbury, England. He was Mayor
of Nairobi from 1941-42 and 1944-46 and then an elected member
of the Kenya Legislative Council through 1950. From 1950-52 he
served as Minister for Education, Health and local Government and
from 1952-59 as Minister for Finance and Development in Kenya.
In 1959 he resigned and resumed his private business untH 1960 when,
at the .request of Mr. Julius Nyerere, he moved to Tanganyika as
Minister for Finance and Development. He had been serving as
Financial Advisor to the Government in Dar es Salaam just before
coming to the States. Lady Vasey accompanied her husband to Wash
ington and will travel to Pakistan with him. Their son Michael is in
Sir Ernest Vasey school in England.
NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS
by S. R. Cope
It is strongly rumored that a memorandum has been issued announcing that a study
is to be made of the use of manpower in 1818 H Street. Considerable scepticism is
is being expressed about the usefulness of this study on the grounds that it does not
refer to womanpower, which is obviously the key factor. To clear up this point, the
issue of a further circular stating laconically "Manpower embraces womanpower" was
contemplated. It was soon realized, however, that embracing went on all the time, and
the plan of a second circular was therefore dropped as being unnecessary.
The study is also believed to be too narrow. It is pointed OUt that the circular does
not refer at all to the important means of reaching decisions, namely the Car Pool.
Moreover, it is felt that the possibility of holding Working Party meetings elsewhere
than in the eleventh floor cafeteria should be studied. In some circles it is thought that
disbursement requests are closely related to variations in hem lines, and that the formation
of an ad hoc "Skirt Length Committee" should be considered. To avoid confusion, this
would be known as S.L.e.
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TEN YEAR STAFF-FEBRUARY
(L to R): David L. Gordon, Joan G. Brown and Bertil Walstedt.
FIVE YEAR STAFF-FEBRUARY
(L to R): J. Philip Hayes, Antonio J. Macone, Audrey Norris, Daniel Johmon,
George Apcar, Shirley Armstrong and Jack L. Upper.
Apologies to Georgia O'Donnell whose pictttre was inadvertently published in
the January issue along with five-1year staff members. Mrs. O'Donnell celebrated
ten years with the Bank in August 1961.
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Staff Relations Lending Library Committee: (L to R) Betty Sekhri, Warren
Baum and Dorothy c~~
A new Staff Relations Lending Library Committee was appointed at the
beginning of the year made up of Betty Sekhri, Dorothy Chisnall and Warren
Baum. These staff members will select the books to be purchased for the library
during the next six months. Any suggestions for additions to the library may
be made to a committee member or directly to the Staff Relations Office, Room
200-E, Extension 2685.
Some of the recent additions to the library include:
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER MADAME CASTEL'S LODGER
by Edgar Snow by Frances Parkinson Keyes
ANOTHER COUNTRY THE MOON SPINNERS
by James Baldwin by Mary Stuart
SEVEN DAYS IN MAY PALE HORSE
by Knebal and Bailey by Agatha Christie
RENOIR, MY FATHER THE EDINBURGH CAPER
by Jean Renoir by St. Clair McKelway
CORNER
Bored with your cooking? Looking for new ideas? Reprinted below is one
of several hundred recipes included in a looseleaf cookbook compiled by the
ladies of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Arlington, Va. Mrs. G. M. Lightowler,
one of the contributors to this excellent selection of recipes, left a copy of "The
St. Andrew's Cookbook" in the Staff Relations Office for staff members to look
through and decide whether they would like to buy it. The book costs $2.25
postpaid.
QUICK BEEFBURGER STROGANOFF
1 lb. ground beef 1 beef bouillon cube
2 tblspns. shortening 1 can mushroom soup
1 clove garlic 1 tsp. W orcestershire sauce
1 medium onion, chopped 1 tblspn. chili sauce
1 cup sour cream
Saute onion in shortening until transparent. Add all ingredients except sou.,.
cream and simmer 10 minutes. Add sour cream last. Serve over rice, noodles
01' chow mein noodles. Serves 4-6.
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Peu~
BIRTHS: Roderick Stephen Van Pelt, January 23, weighing 7 lbs. Mrs.
whose initials R.S.V.P. make his name Ruigomez, who had accompanied her
even more distinctive, is the first husband to Washington last Septem
child for former staff member Gloria ber, returned to Madrid at the end
Jean and Roderick Van Pelt. He of December to await the happy event.
weighed 7 lbs., 11 ozs. at birth on Alfonso has two brothers and two
New Year's Eve in the Georgetown sisters.
University Hospital. Virginia Martha, second daughter
Ammar made the year 1963 a very for Elizabeth and Patrick Delany, was
happy one for his parents, Thoraya born at George Washington Univer
Maani and Ismail Mohamed Bakheit sity Hospital on January 28 and
of Sudan, with his arrival on Janu weighed 7 lbs., 15 ozs.
ary 11 at Georgetown University Hos Bob and Carol Gardner's second
pital, weighing lllbs., 10 ozs. Ammar, child and first daughter, Lynsay Mar
who has four sisters and three brothers garet, weighed 8 lbs., 4 ozs. at birth
waiting for him in Sudan, has the on February 2 in the Washington Hos
distinction of being the first EDI baby pitalCenter.
born in Washington during a course.
His father is a participant in the EDI BEST WISHES TO: Sonia Vandama
Eighth Course. Appropriately, Ammar of the Office of the Secretary and
means "A man who makes develop Jorge Lopez-Balboa who were married
ments"! on December 15 in the Little Flower
Kerstin Wapenhans, third child for Catholic Church in Miami, Florida.
Rosemarie and Willi Wapenhans, was Mr. Lopez-Balboa works for Merrill
born in Giessen, Germany on Janu Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in
ary 14-a pleasant interruption dur Washington and studies Accounting at
ing her family's home leave. She will Georgetown University. The couple
return to Washington with her live in Arlington.
mother on March 2. Corina Papachrysanthou and Michael
From the Hubert Havliks in San Wiehen of the Legal Department who
tiago, Chile comes word of the birth were married on January 30 in Stein
of their fourth grandchild, Alicia feld/Eifel, Germany while Mr. Wiehen
Caroline Balshaw, daughter of Mr. was on home leave.
and Mrs. Geoffrey R. Balshaw, on And to EDI staff. member Derek
January 22 in Lima, Peru. Mrs. Bal Healey who flew to Montreal to marry
shaw is the former Susan Havlik. Maureen King on February 2. The
Juan M. Ruigomez, a participant Healeys will go to Italy with the EDI
in the EDI Eighth Course, has re partici pants in March and from there
ceived the happy news of the arrival to the Greek island of M ykonas for
of a son, Alfonso, in Madrid, on their belated honeymoon.
IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. Hamilton Grepe, mother of Mrs. Mary Beevor, on January 14,
in London.
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BeWL~NG
by Hazel Fleming
At a little past the halfway mark in the 62-63 season no team is firmly
enough established to make any sort of prediction as to the final outcome.
There is a spread of only four games between the first place and ninth place
teams so anything can happen. One of the oddities of this season is that
Printers hold bottom place but also hold the High Team Set and are tied with
Administration for High Team Game for the season. (Printers, take care!)
For High Average, Pete O'Neill and Lou Pizza have been conducting "he's
up, he's down" warfare-Lou on top one week and Pete the next. Bill Matthews
and Reno Giammetta are the only possible threats to their superiority. Joanna
Slusarski seems to be in undisputed possession of High Average for girls with
only a slight chance that Joan Brown, Florence Perras or J eani Winston might
catch up.
Pete has held High Set for men since quite early in the season but Vicky
Viola has recently taken this honor away from teammate Joan Brown by one
pin. Joan Brown and Del Harris continue to hold High Game, Jo Slusarski
and Pete O'Neill hold High Strikes, Jeani Winston and Reno Giammetta have
High Spares, and Jeani holds also High Flat Game, with Lou Toehl for the men.
A squib on Bank bowling without the names of Pete O'Neill and Lou Pizza
cropping up would be a very unusual thing-now we have the possibility of
future items combining the names when Pete Pizza, Lou's son, has a little more
experience. Here is a Young man with a future in bowling.
At the time of going to press, there is considerable excitement concerning
the Bank/Fund Annual Tournament (February 6 and 13). Results in next
issue!
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