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Work program and budget management

Series consists of records maintained by Bock related to formulating and monitoring unit budgets and work program planning. The records cover the period during which he was director of the following departments: Financial Policy and Analysis (FPADR), Debt Management & Financial Services (DFS), and Operations Staff, Office of the Senior Vice President, Operations (OPNSV).

Records include memoranda between Bock and units reporting to him, and the Bank's budget units. Also included are budget submissions, data tables, and reports including a retrospective review of Fiscal Year 1991. A single file relates to program coordinators meetings.

Subject files

This series contains subject file records maintained by Bock during his tenure from 1983 to 1991 as director of the following departments: Financial Policy and Analysis (FPADR); Debt Management & Financial Services (DFS) and its successor, the Cofinancing and Financial Advisory Services (CFS); and Operations Staff, Office of the Senior Vice President, Operations (OPNSV).

Records included in the series are memoranda between Bock's subordinate units and several other Bank departments, letters and facsimiles exchanged with representatives of multilateral development institutions and other external organizations, agenda and minutes of meetings, Board papers, internal working papers authored by Bank staff, handwritten notes, speeches, and external reports.

Topics from Bock's financial policy, analysis, and advisory work in the 1980s include: IDA replenishment negotiation, IBRD capital increases, borrowing requirements and prospects, currency swaps, debt-for-nature swaps, financial technical assistance, coordination with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group affiliates; cofinancing and collaboration with external partners including Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); and Group of Ten (G10) and other intergovernmental meetings. Also included are records dated 1983 to 1986 concerning the Future Role of the Bank initiative including a task force chaired by Bock that addressed resource implications and lending prospects.

A large portion of records in the series concern external debt issues including debt reduction efforts to assist developing countries, debt studies, eligibility criteria, allocation approaches and impacts on Bank exposure, Debt Task Force, use of the IDA Special Facility for Debt Reduction, and the Bank's support to the Brady Plan introduced by then-US Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady in March 1989. Bock met with US Treasury Department and commercial bank officials on behalf of the Bank during the Brady Plan's implementation that are reflected in this series.

Many records also relate to the Bank's response to the Persian Gulf War and oil price crisis in the early 1990s. The conflict had significant economic implications for countries in the region, and the files in this series relate to Bank assistance to the affected countries, and cost sharing discussions between development partners. Records include correspondence, briefings, minutes of the Gulf Crisis Financial Coordination Group of bilateral and multilateral members, and collaboration withIMF, particularly in preparation of a paper, "Coordination of Development Assistance in the Middle East Region" requested by the Gulf Crisis Financial Coordination Group.

The series also comprises records documenting Bock's diverse activities in OPNSV such as involvement in the Operations Committee, Lending Allocation Review Group, World Bank Group's private sector development initiatives, technical assistance program and Technical Assistance Review Task Force, environment and environmental impact assessments process, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) development, 1991 Bank reorganization, and seminars and conferences Bock attended or presented at, including the Global Finance Forum.

Cofinancing and Financial Advisory Services Department (CFS) chronological files

Series consists of chronological correspondence created and received by Bock while he served as director of the Cofinancing and Financial Advisory Services Department (CFS).

Records in this series are primarily memoranda between CFS staff and management, regional unit staff, and other Bank departments such as Financial Policy and Risk Management Vice Presidency (FPRM). Topics include Bank financial policy and planning, cofinancing operations, debt issues, and departmental budget monitoring and staffing.

Operations Staff, Office of the Senior Vice President, Operations (OPNSV) chronological files

Series contains chronological correspondence and memoranda created and received by David R. Bock in his position as Director, Operations Staff in the Office of the Senior Vice President, Operations (OPNSV), covering the period from April 1990 to July 1991. Certain correspondence was drafted by Bock to be sent by Senior Vice President, Operations Moeen Qureshi.

Outgoing memoranda is addressed to operations vice presidency and regional staff, Office of the President (EXC), and other Bank departments.

Subjects addressed include country lending operations, operational policy and procedure, analysis of current initiatives, collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral development partners. Administrative topics include operations budget, staffing, corporate business planning and initiatives, and information technology support.

The series also includes a file dating 1987 to 1991 that contains correspondence and attachments pertaining to Bock's travel logistics, expenses, and claims while in OPNSV and previous units.

Managing Director, Finance and Resource Mobilization (MDFMD) subject files

This series consists of subject files and briefing books from when Jessica P. Einhorn served as Managing Director, Finance and Resource Mobilization (MDFMD), from January 1996 to August 1998. The series includes files started before Einhorn's transition to MDFMD, such as a current events briefing book of financial reports (1992-1996), files on meetings of senior finance managers (1992-1998), and a collection of Einhorn's speeches (1982-1998).

Subject files in this series relate to topics such as: financial accounting issues; reports by the Internal Auditing Department (IAD); letters of representation for financial audits of the Bank; the eleventh replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA11); membership and financing for Bosnia and Herzegovina; and a "glass ceiling panel" about the gender imbalance in senior business leadership, including at the Bank. Briefing books cover issues such as allocation of net income and review of single-currency loans (SCL) and currency pool loans.

"Foundation files" relating to the World Bank Group's efforts to build partnerships with charitable foundations and foundation-like organizations (FLOs) contain briefing books, memoranda, discussion papers, and quarterly reports. Organizations referenced include the Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, MacArthur Foundation, and Getty Trust.

Financial Operations Department (FOD) and Vice President and Treasurer (TREVP) subject files

This series includes subject and activity files collected by Jessica P. Einhorn while serving in the Office of the Vice President and Treasurer (TREVP, 1981-1986, 1991-1995) and the Financial Operations Department (FOD, 1987-1991). Included are some files likely created by Einhorn's TREVP colleagues and predecessors, notably Vice President and Treasurer Eugene H. Rotberg.

Topics discussed in subject files from the 1970s and 1980s include: a proposal for a "World Bank's Bank" to increase IBRD lending and raise funds from commercial banks; the Financial Policy and Analysis Department (FPA); asset management; debt prepayment; special drawing rights; U.S. Treasury policy; and innovative financial transactions. Subject files from Einhorn's tenure as Vice President and Treasurer (1991-1995) cover topics such as: policy issues in international bond market access and liability management; proposed borrowing transactions; the Government Borrowers Forum; and monitoring reports on audits.

Managing Director, Finance and Resource Mobilization (MDFMD) chronological files

This series consists of chronological correspondence from when Jessica P. Einhorn served as Managing Director, Finance and Resource Mobilization (MDFMD), from January 1996 to August 1998. The records include incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, notes, and emails. The bulk of the records are communications to or from internal World Bank units and staff. Subjects covered include financial administration, operations, risks, and strategy.

Some correspondence is between Einhorn and other senior World Bank officials, including President James D. Wolfensohn, fellow Managing Directors such as Sven Sandstrom and Caio Koch-Weser, and Executive Directors of the Bank. Included is one folder of personalized notes and annotated documents for Einhorn from President Wolfensohn, dating from 1995 to 1997, and from Managing Director Ernest Stern, dating from 1992 to 1994.

Managing Director files

The series consists of records created and received by Stern while serving as Managing Director from December 1991 until his retirement in 1995. The majority of the records are chronological files containing outgoing memoranda, letters, reports, and handwritten notes addressed to his fellow Managing Directors Atilla Karaosmanoglu and Sven Sandstrom, President Lewis Preston, Regional Vice Presidents, and other senior managers. The files cover issues including: Loan Committee proceedings for which Stern served as Chairman; Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) food security, staffing, and other matters; initiation and status of country loans; country debt; planning and review of Bank program and budget; recruitment; and comments contributing to internal papers and strategy discussions. Other external correspondents include senior government officials, academic institutions, and private sector executives. Series also contains a small portion of files relating to lending operations and portfolio management, Lending Allocation Review (LAR) guidelines, Policy Review Committee guidelines, and Country Strategy Assistance Program guidelines.

Seminar and speech files

This series consists of two files related to academic seminars, professional conferences, and World Bank corporate training events that Frank participated in. For most of the seminars, Frank delivered a presentation himself as a guest speaker or contributed written material for discussion. Seminar topics include agribusiness, international food delivery, and Bank operations. Several agribusiness seminars were part of the Harvard Business School executive education program. The file of speeches contains Frank's prepared remarks for an international capital markets seminar on International Finance Corporation risk management, notes for a presentation at Nikko Securities in Tokyo about investment in emerging markets, and remarks to a conference of bankers in Colombia about Colombian financiers (financieras).

Managing Director chronological files

Series consists of chronological correspondence sent and received by Gautam Kaji while serving as Managing Director of the World Bank. Series broadly consists of three chronologically parallel parts: general correspondence; correspondence authored by Kaji and Managing Director Koch-Weser; and correspondence between Kaji and World Bank President Wolfensohn.

General correspondence records date from December 1994 when Kaji assumed the position of Managing Director and November 1997 when he retired from the Bank. Files are generally divided into two sections. The first section includes internal Bank correspondence. The most common records in this group are those relating to Kaji's role as Chairman of the Loan Committee and its successor, the Operations Committee. These records include reports on potential projects, materials related to regular Operations Committee meetings, and Kaji's comments on draft Country Assistance Strategies. Other topics discussed in the records of this series include: performance monitoring indicators and performance standards; guarantees in private sector investment in IDA countries and the World Bank Guarantee Program; World Debt Tables; the Bank-wide reorganization of 1997; conference attendance; planning and review of Bank program and budget; and operations and business policy development, review, and dissemination. Records include: drafts of Kaji's publications; Kaji's speeches; personal correspondence; meeting notices; memoranda to the Executive Directors; operations review reports; and Quarterly Reports on Pending Tranche Releases of Adjustment Operations. T