Download or read book Some Post war Balance of Payments Difficulties in the Netherlands written by Theodore Kelz and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Post War Financial Rehabilitation of The Netherlands written by P. Lieftinck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecoltomic and political background When after five years of war and occupation (May 194o-May 1945) The Netherlands started on the road to recovery, the economy was in a catastrophic condition. As a result of destruction, requisitioning and looting, and of unavoidable expenditures by the Government in exile, the national wealth in terms of real and financial assets had been reduced by about 30 per cent. The productive capacity in industry, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure was heavily damaged, stocks were exhausted and labor productivity was serious ly underminded (the daily food ration had reached the near starvation level of barely 600 calories per person).1 Monetary reserves and foreign investments had suffered heavy losses. The economic and social strategy on which the new post-war Government embarked was directed towards three major objec tives: a) rapid reconstruction of the productive potential; b) equit able distribution of the national income; c) rational utilization of the available economic resources. It was realized that the achieve ment of these objectives was conditioned by austerity with respect to consumption, after a reasonable subsistence level had been restored; by a maximum investment effort; by the re-establish- 1 During the war period, the population had increased by more than 400,000 reaching 9.3 million end-I94S.
Download or read book The Economy and Politics of the Netherlands Since 1945 written by Richard Griffiths and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is relatively little information on The Netherlands written in the English language which is easily accessible to social science students and even less which is systematically assembled between the covers of a single book. This is unfortunate not only because The Netherlands is an important part of Western Europe but because the experience of The Netherlands in the way in which it has attempted to resolve the economic and political problems confronting it may help to shed valuable light on similar issues facing other European countries. The contributions for this volume were chosen with these considerations in mind. On the one hand the selection of topics was intended to provide an overall impression of the political and economic development of The Netherlands since the Second World War. Thus separate chapters are devoted to an examination of economic develop ment; counter-inflation, energy, regional and planning policies; pressure groups, electoral performance, cabinet formation and colonial and Euro pean policies. On the other hand, these areas for investigation were chosen to invite specific contrast with the experience of other European nations or to illustrate certain problems of political or economic theory. It is my pleasure to thank, first of all, the contributors themselves for the conscientious way in which they prepared their drafts which made my task as editor so much easier. Secondly, it will be apparent to even the most casual observer that I have contributed two chapters.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 2318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IMF Staff papers written by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1956-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to describe the role and the operating significance of IMF quotas. Each member of the IMF has a quota, the functions of which are threefold. These functions are interrelated, but the attempt to find a series of figures that would effectively perform all these functions for each member necessitated a large amount of compromise in the determination of quotas. A quota determines the subscription or contribution of each member to the capital of the IMF; and the total of the quotas of all members determines the size of the IMF’s financial resources. Each member is required to pay to the IMF of its quota in gold, and the balance in its own currency. Apart from any retained profits or accumulated losses, quotas directly determine the total assets of the IMF. Assets can be increased only by admitting new members or by increasing the quotas of existing members, though the Fund may under prescribed conditions increase the funds at its disposal by borrowing.
Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Download or read book The Netherlands and the Oil Crisis written by Duco Hellema and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive study examines the role of the Netherlands in the October War and the oil crisis of 1973. The authors contend that the actions of the Dutch government were hypocritical: the Dutch government faced a domestic crisis when an oil embargo was levied against them by Arab countries for selling arms to Israel; yet after oil began arriving again two months later, the Dutch rejected a proposal for a stricter interventionist energy policy within the European Union. A probing and thought-provoking study, The Netherlands and the Oil Crisis draws on previously unavailable archival sources to shed new light on a pivotal moment in contemporary Dutch history.
Download or read book IMF Staff papers written by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1951-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explains contribution of the September 1949 devaluations to the solution of Europe’s dollar problem. After the devaluations, the dollar value of exports to the United States from the devaluing countries in Europe recovered from the low levels of the second and third quarters of 1949, but this recovery, which restored exports in the first half of 1950 approximately to the 1948 level should be attributed in large part to the recovery in the US economy rather than to the devaluations. Between the first half of 1949 and the first half of 1950, Europe's dollar imports declined by one-third. Most of this decline occurred, however, between the second and third quarter of 1949, that is, before the devaluations. With imports generally controlled, the effect of the devaluations appeared much more in the reduction of pressure on the control authorities, the substitution of the price mechanism for at least part of the controls as barriers to imports, and the consequent more rational allocation of the relatively scarce dollars among different uses and different users.
Download or read book The European Rescue of the Nation State written by Alan Milward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-12-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated, this second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration.
Download or read book Balance of Payments Adjustment 1945 to 1986 written by Ms.Margaret Garritsen De Vries and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1987-03-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries, former Historian of the IMF, the book describes the policies and activities the IMF has pursued in helping members achieve balane of payments adjustment. Separate treatment is given to industrial and developing countries, since their balance of payments problems have differed. As examples, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Mexico as discussed.
Download or read book Foreign Aid Appropriation Bill for 1950 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postwar Economic Problems written by Seymour Edwin Harris and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1943 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Developments in the Netherlands 1962 written by United States. Bureau of International Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Aid Appropriation Bill 1950 1951 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Papers James Meade V3 written by Susan Howson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. This is Volume III of four on the collected papers of James Meade and looks at International Economics. James Meade was Professor of Commerce London School of Economics from February 1948.
Download or read book International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1950 written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1950-09-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews key findings of the IMF’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 1950. The report highlights that the widespread devaluation of currencies that took place in September 1949 was the most far-reaching in any comparable period in recent times. Thirteen members agreed new par values with the IMF, most of them involving a devaluation of approximately 30.5 percent in relation to the U.S. dollar. Six member countries with which the IMF has no agreed par value also depreciated their exchange rates.
