Announcement of Uganda General Survey Mission on September 23, 1960

HPLD FOR RELEASE WORLD • 1818 H STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON 25, D. c. TELEPHONE: EXECUTIVE 3-6360 PRESS RELEASE NO. 653 FOR RELEASE SUBJECT: Uganda General A.M. Newspapers Survey Mission Friday, September 23, 196o The World Bank is sending a mission to Uganda, at the request of the Governments of Uganda and of the United Kingdom, to make a general survey of the economy and to help formulate a program of economic development. The mission will begin its field work in Uganda on September 26 and expects to remain there for about three months. • The mission Will assess the human, physical and financial resources available for the further growth of Uganda and, based on its findings, will draw up recommendations for a comprehensive program of development. In their recommendations they will deal, among other matters, with the amounts and priority of desirable investment in the principal sectors of th~ economy over the next five years; public financial policies and measures needed to facilitate and sustain the development program; measures to encourage private investment; and other means of mobilizing Uganda's human and physical re- sources and channeling them into soundly based development of the economy. The mission, comprising nine members .• is headed by Edward s. Mason, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and one of the leading economists in the United States. The other members include economists and advisers on agriculture, industry and power, transportation, education and health.  V 1 l r - 2 - • The World Health Organization assisted the Bank in recruiting the services of the specialist in health problems, and the United Nations Education, Scienti- fic and Cultural Organization assisted in recruiting the education speciaJ.ist. This ts the 20th general:, survey mission to be organized by the Bank. The others have gone to British Guiana, Ceylon, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Libya, Malaya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, the Trust Territory of SomaJ.iland, Surinam, Syria, Tanganyika, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. The mission members are Edward s. Mason (United States) -- Chief of Mission Professor Mason's teaching career at Harvard University began in 1923 and he has been Professor of Economics since 1937. From 1947 to 1958 he was Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration. In 194.5 Professor Mason served. as Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State in Ch~ge of Economic Affairs; in 1947 he was Chief Economic Advisor to the United Sta.:t.es Delegation at the Mos- cow Conference.; in 1951/52 he was a member of the Materials Policy Commission, and in 1959/60 a member of the International Development Advisory Board. In • recent years, he has devoted his E:t;·tention to problems of less developed. coun- tries and has served as adviser on matters of development policy to the Govern- ments of Pakistan, Iran and other countries. Richard Boyd (United States) - - Adviser on Health Dr. Boyd has been a Medical Director in the United States Public Health Service since 1951, and currently is Regional Medical Director in Dallas, Texas. He previously served. in the same capacity for the regions centering on Boston, San Francisco and New York. He has ma.de comprehensive surveys of health facilities and needs in Pakistan and Peru • .Andrew M. Kamarck (United States) -- Chief Economist Mr. Kamarck is Economic Adviser to the world Bank I s Department of Operations for Europe, Africa and Austral.as ia. He has b.een a member of the Bank's staff since 1950. .From 1940 to 1950 h1~ was in the Office of International F:i.nance in the United States Treasury. From 1939 to 1940 he was an economist on the Federal Reserve Board. Norman D. Lees (United Kingdom) -- Adviser on Industry and Power Mr. Lees w~ associated with Imperial Chemical Industries from 1922 through 1948. His various posts included Plants and Works Manager, Development Director General of the Chemicals Di'Vision, General Manager in charge of Chemical De- • fense Factories, and Generai Manager in charge of the development of Imperial 0.hemica.1 1 s Witton works. From 1948 to 1956 he was Director of' Industries for  '["'\ - r - 3 - the Quimicas Argentina Imperial. He served as adviser on industry, mining and power on the Bank's General Survey Mission to Thailand in 1957/58. Franz Lut.olf (Sw_itzerland) -- E.conomist Ml'. Lutolf has been a member of the World Bank's Economic Staff since 1956. He was associated with the SWiss Institute for Foreign Trade Research from 1951 to 1956, and in 1958/59 was a member of the Bank's General Survey Mission to Libya. In 1950/51 he was a Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University. George kfcKelvie (United Kingdom) -- Adviser on Transportat1s.on Most of Mr. McKelyie's career was in the service of the Government of India,· as a specialist in engineering and. transportation matters. Among the posts he held was that of Consulting E11,gineer to the Government from 1943 through 1950, when he drew up a scheme for post-war road and road transport development; and from 1950 to 1953 he was Road Development Adviser and Joint secretary to the Government. In 1959 he served as adviser on transport, communications and public utilities on the Bank's General Survey Mission to Libya. Sir Herbert Stewart (United Kingdom) -- Agricultural Adviser Sir Herbert has served on many Wo:t''.td Bank missions: in 1955 he was Chief' of the Bank's Agricultural Mission to Colombia and subsequently was agricultura.l • adviser on Bank missions to Pakistan, Italy and. Yugoslavia. From 1920 to 1946 Sir Herbert was a member· of the Indian .Agricultural Service; his posts there included Director of Agriculture and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Punjab University; .Agricultural Commissioner with the Government of India; and Vice Chairma.Yl of the Imperial Council of Agricu.ltural Research. Between 1946 and 1951 he was successively Agricultural Adviser to the British Middle East Office, Principal Consultant on Agriculture to the United Nations Economic survey Mission for the Middle East, and Agricultural Adviser to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Thomas Wilson (New Zealand) -- Adviser on Education Mr. Wilson has been Principal of .Ardmore Teacher's College in Auckland, New Zealand since 1948. Prior to that he was a Lecturer at Dunedin Teacher's College, and from 1945 to 1948, Inspector of.~ Schools • Mr. Wilson was Chief of Mission in Thailand and in the Philippines for the United Nations-Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in 1951/52 and 1956/57, respectively. Montague Yudelman (South Africa) -- Agricultural Economist Mr. Yudelman received his Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor's degrees from the University of California, after which he was a Research Assistant at the University in 1951/52. For the next year he was attached to the Technical Assistance Office of' tlle. FAO. He subsequently received a Ford Foundation Fellow- ship for study in Central.Africa and. worked for the Rockefeller Foundation in • Africa and. Latin America. He has also been on the staff of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. In 1955, Mr. Yudelman was a member of the World Bank's Agricultural Mission to Colombia.