Series - Country files

Subject Files: Country Files - Finland - Correspondence 01 Subject Files: Country Files - Kenya - Correspondence 01 Subject Files: Country Files - Lebanon - Correspondence 01 India Presidents Papers - Lewis T. Preston - Subject Files - India - Office of the President - Co... Subject Files - Country Files - Nicaragua - Office of the President - Correspondence Subject Files: Country Files - China - Correspondence 01

Identity area

Reference code

WB IBRD/IDA EXC-12-5779S

Title

Country files

Date(s)

  • 1991 - 1993 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

3.20 linear feet of textual records

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Scope and content

The series contains records of President Preston's briefings and talking points for meetings with Government leaders and representatives of member countries, background information on the country, country strategy papers, and internal memoranda. A few files contain items from the Conable Presidency. Many of the records in the files are memoranda and correspondence of the Managing Directors; however, the records were maintained as the record set of country files for the Office of the President.

The files cover only the first three years of the Preston term. Files on countries during the last part of the Preston years are found in the records of Matthew F. McHugh, who was appointed Counselor to the President in 1993. McHugh remained in the President's office for the first term of the Wolfensohn Presidency and he continued to use and file into the country files he maintained; these records are part of the Wolfensohn Presidential records.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Records are arranged alphabetically by name of country.

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Conditions governing access

Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.

Conditions governing reproduction

Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

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Related units of description

  • See Records of President Lewis T. Preston -- Records of the Counselor to the President, Matthew F. McHugh (WB IBRD/IDA EXC-12-01).

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Rules and/or conventions used

Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).

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Dates of creation revision deletion

29 July 2003

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