TUESDAY, JUNE 30. MORNING SESSION, 



II A.M. 



Section VII. Miscellaneous Subjects. 



Chairman: PROFESSOR P. CARMODY, Director of Agriculture, 



Trinidad. 



The CHAIRMAN : I have been asked to take the chair at this 

 meeting, and I have much pleasure in calling upon Mr. Hewins 

 to read his paper on the Economic Developments in the Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan. 



ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AN0LO-EGYPTIAN 



SUDAN. 



By H. P. HEWINS, 



Director, Commercial Intelligence Branch, Central Economic 

 Board, Sudan Government, Khartoum. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was conquered from the 

 Dervishes, who had held it for some fourteen years, by a com- 

 bined British and Egyptian force under Lord Kitchener in 1898. 



The Dervishes had ruined the country. During their rule 

 the population declined, owing to famine, warfare, and pesti- 

 lence, from 8,000,000 to about 2,000,000. 



The Sudan has made rapid recovery during the last fifteen 

 years. 



Revenue has increased from .127,000 in 1899 to 

 .1,644,000 in 1913, and the country is now solvent. 



External trade, which was practically non-existent at the 

 time of the conquest, has now an annual value of nearly 

 E. 4, 000,000. 



Practically the whole of the country now enjoys undisturbed 

 tranquillity, and matters have so far progressed that the British 

 Government has recently guaranteed the interest on a loan to 



