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World Economic and Social Survey (WESS)
The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) provides objective analysis of pressing long-term social and economic development issues, and discusses the positive and negative impact of corresponding policies.
This publication is continued by World Social Report.
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World Economic Survey 1955
World Economic Survey 1955 reviews the growth of production and trade in private enterprise economies and the centrally planned economies during the first post-war decade. The introduction examines some of the major problems of balanced growth encountered since the war. The Survey also highlights recent developments in the world economy covering the recent situation in industrially advanced and primary producing private enterprise economies as well as in the centrally planned economies. The Survey briefly assesses the economic outlook at the beginning of 1956.
World Economic Report 1952–1953
World Economic Report 1952-53 analyses major changes in domestic economic conditions and international trade and payments from 1950 to 1953 with special emphasis on developments in 1952 and 1953. The introduction surveys current economic problems in the light of economic developments since the Second World War. The Report also highlights changes in international trade and payments and in the external transactions of countries which for the most part are exporters of manufactured products or of primary commodities as well as of countries with centrally planned economies.
World Economic Report 1953–1954
World Economic Report 1953-54 analyses recent major changes in domestic economic conditions and in international trade and payments with special emphasis on developments in 1953 and 1954. The Report reviews the economic developments in three broad groups of countries: economically developed private enterprise economies centrally planned economies and economically underdeveloped private enterprise economies.
World Economic Report 1951–1952
World Economic Report 1951-52 highlights the major domestic economic changes in economically developed private enterprise economies centrally planned economies and selected countries of Latin America and the Far East. The Report also studies the changes in international trade and payments in several major economic powers. From 1950 to 1952 these took place in a context of continuing international disequilibrium.
World Economic Report 1950–1951
World Economic Report 1951-52 highlights the major domestic economic changes in economically developed private enterprise economies centrally planned economies and selected countries of Latin America and the Far East. The Report also studies the changes in international trade and payments in several major economic powers. From 1950 to 1952 these took place in a context of continuing international disequilibrium.
World Economic Report 1949–1950
World Economic Report 1949-50 analyses major developments in domestic economic conditions and international economic relations during 1949 and the first half of 1950 with some preliminary comments on tendencies since mid-1950. The Report also presents a discussion of two special problems: the factors underlying the persistent dollar deficits in a large part of the world prior to 1949 and the relationship between the currency devaluation of 1949 and subsequent developments in international trade.
World Economic Report 1948
World Economic Report 1948 assembles a considerable volume of post-war economic data relating to all regions of the world not hitherto available within the compass of a single study. The Report aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the world economic situation in 1948 and to indicate major economic problems and prospects as at the end of the year. In addition present economic conditions in various areas of the world are compared with those which prevailed before the war. Particular attention is drawn to certain significant economic trends during 1948 and the early months of 1949 which appear to call for national and international action.