Announcement of Mission Being Sent to Jamaica on February 25, 1952

HOll> F.OR RELEASE HOLD .. FOR ' . RELEASE INTERNATIO?U.l, aANK FOR • RmONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PRESS FOR RELEASE A .•.M. Newspapers Monday, February 2S .,.19Sl The :;rnternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development announced today that it is sendin~\ a general eeon"mic surv·ey niie,sion to Jamaica in response t-o a \ \ ~ . reqqest from the Go\ernor or Jamaica, Sir Hugh Foot~ after cons~itatlonwith the British Government. The m;ssion is expected to Q'rive in Jamaica -on Mar.ch. l for a stay of approximately two months. J9hn c. deWil.de, of the Bank's Economic Dep~t~ent, wiU 'be Mission.Chief. The ~oup will -make an ind~pend:ent and obJective ~tudy. of tll~.developnent.require- m~ts of .Jamaica, particularly in consideration of its.grow~g population, and will recomme~ ways and n1eans of meeting these requirements in the light of the resources wrtj.ch are a~ilable or co~d be mobilized. Thi, will include deter-,. • mining tbe nee4 fo~ a.gditional emplo~ent and nat;io~al income; consideration of how to inc~eas~ ~grieultqral and ind~strial developmept, and the amount·ot new investment neceeasary for it; e.i~-tion or the !immcial x-esources· which mi·ght be mobiliied by the government fox- develQpment; and a ~tudy ot the measures the government might take to. attract th~ neces,i~ry p:rivate capital - l.pcal and f'o~etgn. Four .of. the~/ 7-man team of e,cpert,i, are ;xpembeJ"6 .of the Banlc Is staff J tt,.e ao-icultUl'al specialists we_re se;t.ected in CPQp~ation with the Food and Agriculture ::-· Organization. of the United Nati,on§, whi,cb is al,E,30 sh~~g part of t,h~ir ~ellSts, ihe mission members and their $pecial fields are as. follows: Jo~ C·• de,.WtJ.de (!1!:S._)_ ~ Ch~.,r/~t M~.ss~on 1 Ni-. <ie W:j.lde wa~ Chitf Economist, ot the\B•nk' e mis~ion. to Iraq in ~9Sl., and was its Abting Qh:ief ~n the ~bsence ot tne Mis~io11ith.i~t\)uring"part of t~e ti1ne ,:-· "1 •• of the mission's stay in served wtth tne u. s. ~aq. Bef;ore joini,Jlg tbe BJnk'• Fore;\.g?l Econonp.o A4tr4ntstration, the Dep~tment of State, and the Economic Ooo:pei-ationA•i,;~~atton. fo:r el,even ye~sp:rsvtously he wa~ ~t~t in l~SO, he  .. 2 -· economist for the Joreign,Policy Association of New York •. ' • John H•.rollier (U ~K.} - Ec~nomi~t 1 Mr, Collter joined the start of the Bank in December.1947· and has worked on matters ot economic development in a number of the Ban1c1·s membei- countries., Albert Win,;eno.,us ' ..• (Netherlands) ( . . . . :. .. .... EconQmic . • . . . . ,,j . Advisor Qn IndlJstr.y l I .. f. l j . • Mr. Winsemius has been Director..Oeneal f'or J;ndqstriauzatiqn in the Net,her.- lands s~n~e 1948.-, Hts ~overnrr\ent serv:L,ce in the Neth~lan4$ bega~. in 193$· and in 1916~46 he was CounseU9r of the Ministry of F·~nce and of tne M.inistcy ot Econo~c Af'i'a.i.rs ~ A• ~-- S~~~tswoo~ {~~9t:>.. ~-;.~~gin~~inr ~d'.'is?r 1 Mr. Spottswo()(i has been a member ot the ~ngineering sta.tt ot the Bank e;inee 1947.. ttis pi-evious experie~ce in epgi,n~~ing and indus~ial develQPJli~t in- cluded. sewvice ae Chief ot the Tran~pQrt..ation and Industrial Economies Division or • the Tennessee Valley Autho~ity • Douwe Groenveld (Netherlands) ~ A.gricultur•l Ecpnomist I · l t , ·• l , , I ~ 1, - . 1 1 - -... f ,, I -- - . . I - I 1 ! I 1 • • • , • ~ , ., • , .• "I Befqre jo:lning the Bankt·s stat.)7 in DeQemb_. l9SO, Mr •. Oroenveld serv·ed , in variou.s assigQments relat~ to agricultl.Wal qev~lopment in t~e Ne~herla.nds and in Indone~j.a. From 1947 to l9SO he wa.s DU'ectoJ:" of E4:onomic Planning in the Mµiistry o! Illdust:ry an~ TJ'ade in Indones~a •. w. V. ·-··. · Blewett . - (U.,K.) • ..• - -· -.. -~ P Advisor -- I . - I. . on Agric\lltlJral . ..... l . I F I... t - . - . Development , . -· ~. Blewett is wid~ly exper;en~e<1 in tr.optcal. agric1,1ltiwe,. lutvin~} served tor many years as OVer:,eas Agri.cult~al. Expert to lmPel<ial Chemical In<iustries. Sinee !9SO he has served as consultant to a nllPJl>er ot Qrganii~tion~ and recentlY was a member of the Bank's mission. to. Surinain,. I. Me ~bov+~z. _(U.9~~). ~ ltt\V;~~oz: .~~ Socia~ .?.ri~ices Mr. l,abovitz has be~n c·n1et· ot the Social Welfare and F~~al-i-State • .,; Relations B~ancn Qt tbe Vo. . s. Bui-ea~ of the Bud~et e-tnce 191al he served wi tn tqe s·~te ot J;µirlQis $n. pQsi tion$· :related to 1;ax. an4 expel\d1ture ·re,earch·-~ a~,,tratioi}. :ei-eviQ~S tti> -t,~i .1;:I.Jrit he was a ~ of ti.. r·esearQh ,ta.tr ot t.he Un:l.v~c,itf: Qt· .Chi~ago. ' l94~, F~om l935 . t:Q