Announcement that the Bank is Sending a Mission to Peru on May 24, 1950

!?7 •.... ., ' .' ~?JTEr.NAi'lO?TAL BANK FOR lUi:CnNSTRVCTION AND D~LOPMEN'.r Wash~ngton FOB THE PRESS FOR RELEASE Preas Beleaae No. 187 12 :.r-r ~on, Wednesday, May ~4, 1950 ',J:he Internt;J.ti~n~.l Bank for Recon~t:ruction and !)evelopment announced today tl:lat ,, in oonsultation with. the Peruvian Ambassado;r · in the United States, the Ba~k has ~rrang~q to sepd a Mission to Peru on the invit~t;.i~n of the Govenµnent of the Republic" The Mis at on. will cons i2:1t of four or five members of the :Sank' a Staff. It will he headed by Mr. S. W. An,derson, Chie:f of the L~t:Ln Ameriean Divi'sion of the Lean Departrnent and will include Dr, Harold Larsen, Chief of the South American Section of the Econo~ic Department. It will 'be- the purpose ot the Mission to br;ing the Bank up to date with regard $0 the economic, financial and business situation in Peru, a.pd to discuss with the Peruvian Gover:nment their prograzn of economic development. The M:f.ss·ion is now engaged in Wa..ehington on prel~i:n~y studies of the Peruvian situat~on, a~d it ie e~pected that it will arrive in Peru _in the early part of July, 1950~ • \