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...case in point: Colombia. Some 60% of all Colombian breadwinners earn their living in agriculture, yet food production fails to keep pace with population growth. In a report issued last week, a World Bank mission urged the Colombian government to undertake a "mobilization of resources" to expand agricultural output. Among the recommendations...
Three years ago, when Rojas stepped into power to stop a bloody civil war between rural Liberals and Conservatives, he had the enthusiastic backing of big majorities in both parties. He dribbled away his prestige among Colombia's literate upper crust, which includes the top politicians of both parties, by such despotic measures as closing newspapers wholesale and bloodily repressing student demonstrations. But Rojas feels certain that labor and peasants no longer look to the old Liberal and Conservative politicos for leadership. He hopes to sweep the dis-'illusioned into the Third Force...
...Colombia, $95 million for highways, agriculture, railroads, and power development. Most dramatic project: a railroad along the winding Magdalena River to replace stern-wheeler river boats as Colombia's main transport, open up vast new areas for cattle production...
...project, teams of World Bank experts checked the plan to make sure it was workable. Black also found it increasingly valuable to take a look at the overall economy of a prospective borrower, gradually put the bank into the business of broad development planning. In 1949 the government of Colombia asked the bank for a team of experts to help work out a countrywide development program. A dozen specialists spent the better part of a year studying Colombia's basic problems, turned in a volume that became Colombia's charter for development, advising on how to attract foreign...
...countries." To supply the need, the bank currently runs a year-long course for junior-rank career officials, training them in such subjects as balance of payments, national-income accounting, project preparation, etc. Black has also set up a school for senior governmental officials. Among his students last week: Colombia's national-planning director, the financial adviser of Pakistan, the economic director for Egypt's finance ministry...