World Bank Group Archives Catalog

Filed in this series are copies of studies generated by consultants and staff in the Strategic Planning Division (SPRSP) of the Strategic Planning and Review Department. Filed with some of the studies are memoranda between the author and SPRSP staff or between SPRSP staff and the SPR Director. Although some of the papers were issued as PRE Working Papers and/or SPR Discussion Papers, most were not published. Of special note is the paper, Strategic Planning in the World Bank, 1987-1990, by SPR staff member Norman Hicks, which provides a history of strategic planning in the Bank and the role of SPRSP in that process and analyzes the successes and failures of SPRSP. The annex to the paper contains a list of the major products of the Strategic Planning Division, most of which are filed in this series.

Science and technology in the international development strategy for the 1990s (by Anandakrishnan, M.) - set

Financing development in the age of globalized financial markets (by Buhler, Warren) - set

Strategic planning in the World Bank, by Norman Hicks - set

Marine resources and development (by Malhotra, Anil) - set

Donors aid motives : Implications for multilateral concessional aid (by Ohno, Izumi) - set

Japan stratigic role for the World Bank in the 1990s (by Park, Eul) - set

Urban Challanges for the 1990s, by Celine Sachs - set

A Proposal to assess the World Bank's organizational memory in two key sectors (by Stein, Eric) - set

Greenhouse effect : The Role of coal-fired power plants in global carbon dioxide build-up, by Amjad Parvez - set

Annual meeting speech : growth, poverty, and environment (by G. Lamb) - set

Annual meeting speech : outlines, drafts, and comments (by G. Lamb) - set

President Retreat - A Framework of Strategic Choices Follow-up Draft Work Program

Annual Meetings Speech 1988: Policy Committee draft comments

Annual Meetings Speech 1988: Post Policy Committee draft comments

Annual meetings : speech zero draft comments - set

Bank / WTO Relations - 4v

Public Relations - Speeches - D. C. Rao - 1v

Correspondence Files of D.C. Rao, Director, International Economics Department

These files contain primarily copies of Director Rao's outgoing correspondence for the period March 1990 to April 1993. The files for the period May to November 1993 contain both Rao's incoming and outgoing correspondence. Enclosures to outgoing correspondence are generally not included. This series includes copies of Rao's correspondence while he was Acting Vice President, DEC, and the correspondence of Masood Ahmed and others who served as Acting Directors of IEC in Rao's absence. Rao did not become Director of IEC until May 1, 1990, but his March - April 1990 correspondence in this series relates entirely to IEC Business.

Planning Assumption Committee - 1v

World Debt Tables - 1v

LTP Background Papers - 1v

External Dissemination of IFC Products - 1v

Structural Adjustment Lending - Background Papers / Board Documents - Dubey - 1980 - 1984

Structural Adjustment Lending (SAL) Files - Board Documents 03

Structural Adjustment Lending (SAL) Files - Board Documents 02

Structural Adjustment Lending (SAL) Files - Book 7

Structural Adjustment Lending (SAL) Files - Board Documents 01

Memoranda and Reports Maintained by the Development Policy Group (DPG) Concerning Procedures and Schedules for Country Strategy Papers (CPSs)

The records in this series were maintained by the Development Policy Group (DPG) and its predecessor, the Economic Advisory Staff (EAS), and consist of the following seven small groupings of memoranda and reports concerning schedules and procedures for the drafting and review of Country Strategy Papers (CSPs):

1. EAS status reports and memoranda concerning schedules for producing CPSs and slippages in those schedules, November 25, 1987 - February, 19, 1991.
1. EAS correspondence with Regional staff regarding schedules for CSP Initiating Memoranda, May 24, 1989 - March 16, 1990.
1. EAS and DPG memoranda regarding revisions of CSP guidelines for inclusion in the Operational Manual (OM) and copies of the relevant sections from the OM, January 5, 1987 - February 4, 1993.
1. EAS copies of CSP reviews prepared in FY 88 and FY 90 and comments on those reviews, October 10, 1988 - April 27, 1990.
1. EAS correspondence regarding guidelines for country strategy reviews for IDA countries, March 13, 1990 - June 4. 1993.
1. EAS memoranda concerning plans for scheduling CSP in FY 1992, February 19 -July 5, 1991.
1. EAS and DPG correspondence concerning CSP schedules and procedures regarding the content and the review process for CSPs, April 20, 1988 - April 6, 1994.