A number of individuals have donated to the World Bank Group Archives small quantities of material about the history of the Bank. All of the donations in this fonds are less than four inches in size (the size of a standard archival box). For conve...
Donated Materials Collection
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
Joint Bank-Fund Library Collection on Presidents of the World Bank
Clippings, speeches, press releases, biographical information, and occasional copies of letters and memoranda by and about Bank Presidents Eugene Meyer, John J. McCloy, George D. Woods, Robert S. McNamara, A.W. Clausen, and Barber C. Conable, Jr. ...
Joint Bank-Fund Library Collection on Presidents of the World Bank
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 Frank K. Vita
This fonds contains records that span Frank Vita's entire twenty-three year career at the World Bank Group as well as time spent at Arthur Andersen LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers in the 1990s. Records relate to his involvement in lending oper...
Vita, Frank K.
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.
Personal Papers of John Nellis
This fonds contains records related to John Nellis's work in the Public Sector Management and Private Sector Development Division (CECPS) located in the Country Economics Department (CEC) of the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC). Th...
Nellis, John
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
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
Personal Papers of Orvis A. Schmidt
The papers cover the period of Schmidt's service with the US Treasury and include his files on his dissertation. Both the Treasury and the dissertation materials include subject files; some topics overlap; all concern Brazil exclusively. The ...
Schmidt, Orvis A.
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
Personal papers of Aura Garcia de Truslow
This fonds contains records that span Aura Garcia de Truslow's entire career with the World Bank Group. Records relate to her work as an Economist and Senior Projects Officer in the Latin America and Caribbean Vice Presidency (LCNVP, LACVP). ...
Garcia de Truslow, Aura
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.
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
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
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 Irving S. Friedman
This fonds contains records related to Friedman's time as Economic Adviser to the President. The majority of the records are correspondence related to Friedman's activities as Economic Adviser. Memoranda to and speeches for Bank Presiden...
Friedman, Irving S.
Personal papers of Jaime Biderman
This fonds contains records that span Jaime Biderman's entire career with the World Bank Group. Records relate to his work as an Economist, Senior Country Officer, and other positions in the World Bank's operations complex. A small numbe...
Biderman, Jaime
Personal papers of Martin M. Rosen
The papers consist principally of photographs from Martin Rosen's period at the World Bank. The photographs are very largely ceremonial: Rosen at the ceremony when a country joins International Finance Corporation; Rosen at an annual meeting;...
Rosen, Martin M.
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
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.
Personal papers of William Diamond
Throughout his career, Diamond kept a personal file in chronological order. Sometimes this file was primarily copies of the messages he sent, but at other times he included copies of incoming messages and copies of correspondence that had been sen...
Diamond, William
Records of General Vice Presidents and Managing Directors
The records of the era of the general vice presidents are fragmentary. A few records of a Middle East and North African trip by Robert L. Garner exist, as does a file on a meeting in Jogjakarta attended by Mohamed Shoaib. The files of Sir Denis Ri...
General Vice Presidents and Managing Directors
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
Records of Private Sector Development Sector
The fonds primarily consists of records related to projects and special studies performed by the Private Sector Finance and Advisory Services Group (CFSPS) located in the Co-financing and Financial Advisory Services Vice Presidency (CFS) from 1989...
Private Sector Development Sector
Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards
The fonds contains the records of two task forces: the Economic Development Institute (EDI) Task Force and the Task Force on Local Cost Financing Under Adjustment Operations. The records of the secretariat responsible for the Bank's activitie...
Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards
Records of the Africa Regional Vice Presidency
The countries included in the Africa region (AFR) have remained constant throughout its history, with the exception being the removal of northern African countries (Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco) into the Europe and Middle East Depar...
Africa Regional Vice Presidency
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 Chief Financial Officer
The fonds includes records of the Vice President of Finance (VPF), the Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI/FINSV), and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), all of which were responsible for the overall management of the Finance Complex of the Ba...
Chief Financial Officer
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 Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
The records in this series reflect the two principal activities of the Consultative Group: funding and evaluating the international institutes. The Group's activity is carried out through regular informal contacts, through consultation at yea...
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Records of the Development Committee
The Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing countries, usually known as the Development Committee, is an advisory body only. The p...
Development Committee
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
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 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 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
Records of the Environment Sector
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the environment sector in the World Bank. The majority of the records in this fonds were created or received by the Environment Department's Global Environment Unit (ENVGC) ...
Environment Sector
Records of the Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency
The fonds consists of chronological files created by ESDVP. Separate chronological files were created for incoming and outgoing correspondence as well as for incoming faxes. Correspondence relates to: the research and writing of departmental revie...
Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency
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 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
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 Finance, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure Network
The fonds consist of budget and work program records related to the PSD department of FPSI.
Finance, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure Network
Records of the Financial Sector Development Sector
The fonds consists primarily of Economic and Sector Work (ESW) records produced by the various financial sector development department, division, and unit incarnations, including: the Financial Development Unit (INDFD) and the Financial Developmen...
Financial Sector Development 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
Records of the Gender and Development Sector
The fonds primarily consists of records related to the Adviser on Women in Development (WID) from the years 1977 to 1987. Subject files kept by WID Advisers Gloria Scott and Barbara Herz are included for the years 1977 to 1986, and illustrate the ...
Gender and Development
Records of the Global Environment Facility
The fonds consists of records that relate to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat's various activities. The majority of the fonds consists of GEF project files. Project types include the Small Grants Programme, Enabling Activitie...
Global Environment Facility
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