Records of the Social Development Sector
This fonds consists of records created by the Social Development Department (SDV) as well as by other Bank units that pre-existed the SDV and which carried out those functions that comprise the Bank's social development sector. Records create...
Social Development Sector
Records of the Consultative Group on Food Production & Investment in Developing Countries
The records of the Consultative Group are of three types: the records of the four meetings of the Group, the correspondence of the secretariat, and the files on the projects sponsored by the Group. Read together, the records of the meetings and t...
Consultative Group on Food Production and Investment in Developing Countries
Records of the Poverty Analysis and Policy Sector
The fonds includes records from PHRWH's involvement with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and World Bank Poverty Research Conference held in 1989. It also includes records related to the Living Standards Measurement St...
Poverty Analysis and Policy Sector
Records of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Vice Presidencyof (ESSDVP) and its oversight of, and involvement with, sector departments within the network. Note that a...
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network
Records of the Office of the Chief Economist
Records created by the Office of the Vice President (later Senior Vice President), Development Economics and Chief Economist (DECVP) comprise the bulk of the records in Fonds 14. Prior to the creation of DECVP in 1987, responsibility for directing...
Office of the Chief Economist
Records of the Economic Policy Reform Sector
Country project filesThe fonds includes country project files from 1984 to 2002. The country project files include extensive records related to Structural Adjustment Loans (SALs) and Sector Adjustment Loans (SECALS) administered for individual cou...
Economic Policy Reform Sector
Records of the Energy Development Sector
The fonds consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, briefing papers, aide-memoires, back-to-office reports, agreements, background research notes, guides, issuances, published material, research papers authored by staff and c...
Energy Development Sector
Reference Collection on World Bank History
This fonds hold copies of records from other repositories that relate to the history of the World Bank. One group of records copied from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library deals with the Bretton Woods conference. A second group, copied from the Har...
Reference Collection on World Bank History
Personal papers of O. Hursit Calika
Series consists of the chronological files Calika personally created and maintained during his career at the World Bank.
Calika, O. Hursit
Records of the VP Front Office The fonds includes Front Office records for the following vice presidents: Teruyuki Ohuchi, Vice President of Cofinancing (VPCOF) from 1982 to 1986; Kunihiko Inakage, VPCOF/COFVP from 1986 to 1989; Koji Kashiwaya, Vi...
Resource Mobilization
Records of the Senior Vice President of Operations
Records of Vice President of Operations and SVPOP J. Burke KnappThe fonds includes records maintained by Vice President and Senior Vice President of Operations (SVPOP) J. Burke Knapp. The records include memoranda sent between Knapp and Bank Presi...
Senior Vice President of Operations
Records of the East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice Presidency
Note that the countries included in the East Asia and Pacific Region fonds fluctuated over the years; countries were moved from one Region to another and Regional Vice Presidencies were merged and separated. The only significant impact this had on...
East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice Presidency
Personal papers of Desmond McCarthy
Fonds consists of chronological files compiled by McCarthy that cover nearly his entire career at the World Bank. Fonds also contains reports and articles authored by McCarthy in both draft and published form as well as records related to his atte...
McCarthy, Desmond
Records of the Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
The fonds includes budget, business plan, and work program records for the Private Sector Development Vice Presidency (PSDVP) and its subordinate units.
Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
Records of the Finance and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
The fonds consists of budget, work program, planning, management, and organization records related to FPD and its subordinate departments of PSD, FSD, and IEN.
Finance and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency
Records of the Office of the President
The records of cover the entire span of administrative and substantive activities of the Bank. Particularly useful is the documentation of public relations activities by the presidents and coordination efforts with outside partners. Briefing books...
Office of the President
Personal Papers of Louise Taraldson Woods
This fonds consists of diaries and photographs of social activities, principally during the period when George D. Woods was President of the World Bank.
Woods, Louise Taraldson
Records of the Human Development Network
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of HDN and its oversight of, and involvement with, sector departments within the network. Note that a small amount of records in this fonds were created prior to the creation of HDN...
Human Development Network
Personal Papers of William Clark
William Clark's notebooks provide a unique view of the World Bank during the McNamara years. Although some of this material found its way into the memoirs, the notebooks contain colorful and candid entries that are not in print. The descripti...
Clark, William
Financial Policy, Planning, and Budgeting
This fonds has been provisionally arranged into one sub-fonds and five series. Sub-headings are used to break up the content of this field according to provisional sub-fonds and series. For a complete list of the provisional sub-fonds and series, ...
Financial Policy, Planning, and Budgeting
Records of the Office of Operations Policy
Records of the VP and Head of Network and the departmental directors'The fonds includes memoranda, notes, letters, and emails sent and received by Hans Wyss, Director of the Central Operations Department (COD), and by those acting as Director...
Operations Policy
Personal papers of Sidney E. Chernick
Fonds consists of Sidney Chernick's chronological files from his time in numerous World Bank departments, including: the Policy, Planning and Program Review Department (PPPRD); Country Policy Department (CPD); South Asia Country Programs Depa...
Chernick, Sidney E.
Records of the Education Sector
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the education sector in the World Bank. Included in the fonds are records related to research activities. These include: proposals; Research Project Outputs (RPOs); exploratory s...
Education Sector
Records of the Urban Development Sector
Fonds consists of records related to activities undertaken by the urban development sector. The majority of records in the fonds are reference materials created or received by the Water Supply and Urban Development Department (WUD) and, more speci...
Urban Development Sector
Personal Papers of Davidson Sommers
The files consist of correspondence, speeches, articles, and photographs related to Davidson Sommers' years of employment in the World Bank's Legal Department and his subsequent service as a consultant to the Bank.Topics covered in the c...
Sommers, Davidson
Personal papers of Hollis B. Chenery
This fonds contains the memoranda and other papers exchanged between Hollis Chenery and World Bank President Robert McNamara between August 1970 and June 1981.
Chenery, Hollis B.
Personal Papers of James L. Theodores
Fonds consists of records from Theodores's time as Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan and as Field Coordinator for the World Bank Group. Many of the records in this fonds appear to be a selection made by Theodores either during his...
Theodores, James L.
Records of the Middle East and North Africa Regional Vice Presidency
This fonds has been provisionally arranged into one sub-fonds and eight series. Sub-headings are used in this "Scope and content" field according to provisional sub-fonds and series. For a complete list of the provisional series, see the...
Middle East and North Africa Regional Vice Presidency
Records of the Human Resources Development and Operations Policy Vice Presidency
The majority of the records in this fonds are chronological files created by the HROVP. Most of the contents of these files are correspondence to and from institutions, agencies, governments, and departments external and internal to the Bank. The ...
Human Resources Development and Operations Policy Vice Presidency
Records of the Population, Health, and Nutrition Sector
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the population, health, and nutrition sector in the World Bank. Included in the fonds are records related to Working Paper, policy, project, and program research. Many of these r...
Population, Health, and Nutrition Sector
Records of the Financial Sector Vice Presidency
Fonds includes the budget monitoring and planning records for FSEVP and its subordinate departments, units, and specialty programs.
Financial Sector Vice Presidency
Personal papers of Benjamin B. King
The papers consist of a body of materials related to Zambia and a set of general policy and issues papers. King undertook a mission to Zambia for the Bank and wrote a report on it, and he collected information about and remained interested in Zamb...
King, Benjamin B.
Records of the Office of Information Management and Technology
Office of Information Management and Technology
Personal papers of Gloria Davis
The papers relate almost exclusively to Indonesia. They include her dissertation and its background data survey sheets. The papers also include background information on all the Indonesia projects in which Davis was involved between 1978 and 1986,...
Davis, Gloria
Records of the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector
The content of this fonds reflects a very small portion of the work of the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector. Subject files of the director of the Economics and Policy Division, of the forestry and fisheries specialists, and of the irrigati...
Agriculture and Rural Development Sector
Records of the Office of the Historian
Because of the broad scope of the work of the office, which was essentially the entire history of the Bank, the records are extremely varied. They include: written reminiscences, solicited or volunteered, by former Bank staff members; drafts of va...
Office of the Historian
Records of the Europe and Central Asia Regional Vice Presidency
This fonds has been provisionally arranged into eight series. Sub-headings are used to break up the content of this field according to provisional series. For a complete list of the provisional series, see the "System of Arrangement" fie...
Europe and Central Asia Regional Vice Presidency
Personal Papers of Lester Nurick
The topics to which the records relate reflect issues of personal interest to Nurick or issues which he handled on behalf of his clients. Records relate to the legal structure of the World Bank as an institution and of its lending operations. Reco...
Nurick, Lester
Records of the Operations (Loan) Committee
The records of the Loan Committee consist of three distinct types of files: minutes; records of the chairman; and background information. The official Loan Committee minutes were maintained by the Bank's Central Files unit until 1987; this Ce...
Operations (Loan) Committee
Records of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network
The fonds consists of records that relate to the activities of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Vice Presidency (PRMVP), and its oversight of the sector departments within the PREM Network. This fonds includes incoming and outgoing co...
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network
Records of the South Asia Regional Vice Presidency
Note that the countries included in the South Asia Region fonds and, in particular, the "Country operational records" series, fluctuated over the years; countries were moved from one Region to another and Regional Vice Presidencies were ...
South Asia Regional Vice Presidency
The fonds includes sector policy review and sector work program review records maintained by Visvanathan Rajagopalan when he served as the Vice President for Sector Policy and Research (PREVP/PRSVP), and its successor the Sector and Operations Pol...
Sector Policy and Research Vice Presidency (PREVP) and the Sector and Operations Policy Vice Presidency (OSPVP)
Robert W. Oliver Collection on George D. Woods
The collection includes copies of the oral interviews Oliver conducted in preparing his biography and copies of a portion of the Woods papers that he had at his disposal when writing the biography. It also contains the clippings files that George ...
Robert W. Oliver Collection on George W. Woods
Records of the World Bank Institute
The fonds consists of records related to the activities of the World Bank Institute (WBI, previously the Economics Development Institute [EDI]). Records in this fonds most commonly relate to the training and programming offered by the WBI. Topics ...
World Bank Institute
Records of Individual Staff Members
A number of individuals accumulated bodies of records from various offices in which they served. When these individuals retired or resigned from the Bank, these records were transferred to the Archives. Because the records cover the individual...
Individual Staff Members