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Records of ESP, PSP, and PGP

  • WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_91-04
  • Subfundos
  • January 1991 - May 1997

This sub-fonds consists of records from the Education and Social Policy Department (ESP) and its successors the Poverty and Social Policy Department (PSP) and the Poverty, Gender, and Public Sector Management Department (PGP). Records include chronological files created by ESP, PSP, and PGP. Records related to the Annual Progress Report on Poverty (APPR) and the ESP/PSP Discussion Paper Series are also included. The sub-fonds additionally includes subject and activity files maintained for PSP/PGP Director Ishrat Husain. The sub-fonds also includes PSP briefing letters prepared for World Bank senior officials and records related to conferences, seminars, symposiums, workshops, and meetings organized and attended by PSP staff.

Geoffrey Lamb files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-25
  • Subfundos
  • 1977 - 1992

Sub-fonds consists of chronological correspondence files for Geffrey Lamb for the following positions and years: Economist for the Development Research Department (DRD) from 1980 to 1982; Public Sector Management Adviser for the Public Management Unit (PPDPS) from 1983 to 1987; Adviser for the Strategic Planning Division (SPRSP) and the Policy Development Unit (PRDPD) from 1988 to 1991; and Unit Chief for the Public Sector Management Unit (EMTPM) within the ECA/MENA Technical Department of the Europe and Central Asia Vice Presidency (ECA) for 1992. The sub-fonds also includes: DRD country strategy papers, study papers, and policy papers maintained and created by Lamb from 1980 to 1981; policy papers focused on institutional reform maintained by Lamb during his time in PPDPS from 1982 to 1987; records related to policy papers prepared by Lamb prior to his employment at the Bank; records related to papers prepared for and involvement in conferences and seminars from 1987 to 1991; and records related to Lamb's involvement with PRDPD work program planning and working group participation from 1990 to 1991.

Benjamin B. King files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-05
  • Subfundos
  • 1952 - 1981

Benjamin King retained a copy of papers he wrote and correspondence he drafted, both for his signature and for the signature of other Bank officials. Although there are gaps in the records, the chronological series provides a good overview of the interests of King and the issues with which he dealt as a staff member of the Bank.

The first part of the chronological file, dating from 1952-1967, includes items relating to King's missions to the Gold Coast, Germany, and Norway and contains notes on the status of operations, planning and procedures, currency, lending resources, and external debt. King also wrote notes on the General Training Committee and a 1955 draft curriculum for the Economic Development Institute, which King joined in 1957. The second part of the chronological file includes papers on the economic work in the Bank; comments on economic reports; drafts of the Charter of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); materials relating to external debt in Iran, India and Pakistan; a study of the feasibility of using computers in the Bank; and a paper on allocation of funds to the International Development Association. The final part of the chronological file includes memoranda and letters to members of the Research Committee and to external research institutions commenting on research proposals and reports. After King was appointed as Director of the Development Economics Department in 1978, the file includes documents on personnel, recruitment, plan, project evaluations, comments on economic reports and clearances for publications. Of particular interest are a March 1979 memo on the Department and King's summaries of the Board meetings he attended The subject files are clearly a fragment of a larger file, because they include only files with subject headings A-E. Many of the same issues found in the chronological file material area found here, including investment criteria, creditworthiness, terms of aid, program lending, and the use of computers. Two files on the Bernard Bell study on India and an agriculture file on India are useful supplements to the official records on the Bell study and to the Bernard R. Bell files. The External Debt Review Committee was established at the end of 1967 to investigate the collection, processing and use of international debt statistics by the Bank. King chaired the Committee in 1967-1968, and his subject files contain memoranda regarding the Committee meetings, the operations of the External Debt Section, material relating to a questionnaire on statistics, and comments on the Committee report.

The country files contain Economic Committee documents, interspersed with some original material of King's regarding economic missions and economic reports.

Zmarak Shalizi files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-11
  • Subfundos
  • 1980 - 1996

The records are largely electrostatic copies of correspondence and papers, filed by the type of function that generated the records. The majority of the records date from 1992-1995 when Shalizi was chief of the Transport Division.

The records are arranged in four sections. The first section has administrative records; the conference files include the background readings for a 1991 seminar for Bank staff on air quality in urban transportation.

The second section is records of research projects funded by the regular budget, trust funds or other special funds. Four of the research proposal files consist primarily of reviews of proposed Bank positions on taxation policies and on poverty lending in the urban sector, 1980-1991, and three additional files concern Bank transport sector policy and performance reviews, 1992-1995. The chronological file consists principally of notes and correspondence regarding the review of taxation and poverty policies found in the research proposals. The papers and a small quantity of correspondence were written by persons other than Shalizi and sent to him for his comments or use. The topics range from road pricing to automotive emissions in developing countries to railways to informal gold mining and mercury pollution in Brazil. The publications are primarily those produced by the Bank, although a few others from sources such as the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy are included. The principal topics are railways and transport-related air pollution; some correspondence related to the publications is included.

The third section consists of records of operational support for projects. One of the four files consists of country studies of taxation in Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Malawi. This is followed by three files of correspondence, arranged chronologically, commenting on projects and studies, proposed and ongoing.

The fourth section is records of research projects funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget. The majority of the files relate to Shalizi's 1989-1991 project on a "Practical framework for evaluating mineral payment/taxation schemes" and are linked to the taxation files found in the second section. In the publications file is a copy of the project document on "Trade and transport in West and Central African States" dated April 1993, while the files of original research data include two papers co-authored by Shalizi, "Contract Policy and the Variability of Government Revenue form Mining Projects" (1990, with R. Conrad and J. Syme) and "The Role of Extraction Charges in Mineral Contracts (1991, with R. Conrad and M. Engers). The research files also include three files on the project on taxation in developing countries, one file on a framework for tax policy analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa, two files on uniform rates of effective protection and efficient taxes, and three files on an analysis of the tax system in developing countries as applied to Pakistan and Mexico.

Debrework Zewdie files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-30
  • Subfundos
  • 1999- 2006

The subfonds consists of records maintained by Debrework Zewdie during the period from 1999 to 2006 when she served as manager of the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica) in the Africa Region, and then as adviser and director, HDNGA. Records reflect Zewdie's managerial and oversight role over the Bank's HIV/AIDS programs, her participation in conferences and meetings, and collaboration with external organizations.

Bernhard H. Liese files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-34
  • Subfundos
  • 1984 - 2002 (predominant 1990 - 1999)

Subfonds contains records maintained by Bernhard H. Liese that primarily relate to his participation in jointly sponsored health programs including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/World Bank/World Health Organization (WHO) Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and the WHO Division of Diarrhoeal and Acute Respiratory Disease Control (CDR). Liese's management of the Bank's financial support to these and other programs and his tropical disease research activities are also represented in the subfonds.

Jessica P. Einhorn files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-35
  • Subfundos
  • 1969 - 1998 (predominant 1980 - 1998)

This subfonds consists of incoming and outgoing chronological correspondence files and subject files maintained by Jessica P. Einhorn during her career at the World Bank Group. The bulk of the chronological correspondence covers the period of 1987 to 1998, spanning Einhorn's work in the Financial Operations Department (FOD), the Office of the Vice President and Treasurer (TREVP), and the Managing Director, Finance and Resource Mobilization (MDFMD). The subject files consist mostly of records created by Einhorn, as well as some created by her predecessors in FOD and TREVP. The records in this subfonds relate primarily to the World Bank Group's financial activities.

David R. Bock files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-31
  • Subfundos
  • 1983 - 1991 (predominant 1987 - 1991)

The subfonds consists of records maintained by David R. Bock while serving as director of various World Bank units between 1983 and 1991. Records include: chronological files related to Bock's role as director of the Debt Management and Financial Services Department (DFS), Cofinancing and Financial Advisory Services Department (CFS), and Office of the Senior Vice President, Operations (OPNSV); subject files related to his work in Financial Policy and Analysis Department (FPADR), DFS, CFS, and OPNSV; and work program and budget files accumulated while overseeing FPADR, DFS, and OPNSV.

The records primarily relate to the Bank's finance and lending operations, including: financial policy and planning; financial analysis; debt crisis and debt reduction initiatives, including the Bank's assistance to the United States-led Brady Plan; cofinancing and cooperation with development partners, country lending and technical assistance programs, and operations staffing and business planning.

Vinod Dubey files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-14
  • Subfundos
  • 1973 - 1990

The series consists of records collected and maintained by Vinod Dubey during his time at the World Bank. The majority of the records were created during Dubey's time in CPD and EAS.

Records of President A. W. Clausen

  • WB IBRD/IDA EXC-09
  • Subfundos
  • 1981 - 1986 (predominant)

A. W. Clausen became World Bank President in July 1981 and served a full five year term. Shortly after he became President, Clausen established a Managing Committee to provide overall administrative and programmatic control of the Bank's activities. The records of the Clausen presidency are best approached through the official files of this Managing Committee, which provide comprehensive documentation on virtually all issues before the Bank during those years. Both Clausen's personal records of the Committee as well as the Committee's official records are part of this sub-fonds.

Clausen was President during the world debt crisis of the early 1980s, and throughout the files are documents about the issues of debt management and the Bank's programs of sectoral and structural adjustment. Discussions of a multilateral investment insurance program began during the Clausen years, which culminated in the establishment of the Multilateral Investments Guarantee Agency (MIGA) after Clausen left office. Both the Special Assistance Program for countries coping with the global recession and the Special Facility for Africa to provide policy reform assistance in sub-Saharan Africa were launched during Clausen's tenure, and the Clausen years saw a growing emphasis on programs in agricultural and rural development and environmental management, among others. Evidence of Clausen's personal interest in these issues can be found throughout the records, but particularly in the extensive set of alphabetical subject files that show Clausen's involvement with issues and organizations. Clausen's views are also evident in the chronological file of his outgoing correspondence during his entire time in office.

The country files and the itinerary files on official trips are good sources of information on the Bank's relationship with and the economic situation in the member countries. The records include photographs of Clausen's visits to countries and to World Bank projects.

Alexander Nowicki files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-15
  • Subfundos
  • 1967, 1981 - 1989

Fonds consists of papers and reports Alexander Nowicki produced while in the employment of the World Bank.

Masood Ahmed files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-19
  • Subfundos
  • 1979-1999 (prominent 1995-1998)

The sub-fonds consist of chronological correspondence records from different units throughout Masood Ahmed's World Bank career. The series additionally includes speech and presentation records from his time in IEC and PREM, and records related to his involvement with the Economic Development Institute (EDI, now renamed the World Bank Institute [WBI]).

Ernest Stern files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-10
  • Subfundos
  • 1969, 1971 - 1995

The majority of the subfonds consists of chronological correspondence records sent and received by Stern from the start of his World Bank career in 1972 to his retirement as a managing director in 1995. The subfonds also contains speeches given by Stern while serving in various positions from 1973 to 1995 and records relating to committees in which he participated.

Records of the Economic Development Institute Task Force

This sub-fonds consists of various records related to the research and consultation undertaken by the task force as well as memoranda and drafts of the final report exchanged between task force members. A copy of the final report is also included.

Records of the 50th Anniversary Secretariat

  • WB IBRD/IDA COM-03
  • Subfundos
  • 1969 - 1994 (predominant 1993 - 1994)

This sub-fonds consists of records created by the Office of the 50th Anniversary Secretariat and maintained by the secretariat's staff director, K. Sarwar Lateef. The records relate to the creation of the secretariat, the organization of the Bretton Woods 50th Anniversary Conference, the outputs of the secretariat on World Bank identity, and the secretariat's liaison activities.

Records of Robert L. Garner

  • WB IBRD/IDA MDS-01
  • Subfundos
  • 1949, 1968 - 1974

Robert L. Garner was Vice President of the World Bank from 1947-1956. The documents in this file concern the trip that Garner made to the Middle East and North Africa on behalf of the Bank in the spring of 1949. Although fragmentary, they convey a sense of the issues Garner discussed with the leaders in the countries visited, particularly in Turkey. The notes of Garner's report to a staff meeting provide an overview of the trip. Also interesting is Garner's report to Bank President John J. McCloy on Garner's visit to Egypt.

Records of Jeffrey A. Goldstein

  • WB IBRD/IDA MDS-05
  • Subfundos
  • 1949, 1970, 1984 - 2004 (predominant 1999 - 2004)

This subfonds consists of chronological correspondence files, briefing books, and subject files maintained by the office of Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer (MDCFO) Jeffrey A. Goldstein. Topics in the records reflect the range of Goldstein's portfolio of responsibilities, including World Bank financial affairs, resource mobilization, corporate strategy, and risk management.

Olga Jonas files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-32
  • Subfundos
  • 1999 - 2014

The subfonds consists of records maintained by Olga Jonas during the period from 1999 to 2014 while she served as principal economist, Resource Mobilization Department (FRM) and then as economic adviser in various Operations Policy and Country Services Network (OPC) and Human Development Network (HDN) units. Records primarily reflect Jonas' activities as coordinator of the Bank's Avian and Human Influenza (AHI) response program, as well as her role in the international Small States Task Force and the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster recovery response.

Heywood Fleisig files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-21
  • Subfundos
  • 1986 - 1992

Sub-fonds consists of incoming and outgoing chronological correspondence files maintained by Heywood Fleisig during his employment in the following positions: Senior Economist in the East Asia and Pacific Vice Presidency (AENVP); Principal Economist in the Asia Vice Presidency (ASIVP); Principal Economist in the Country Operations Division, Asia-Country Department II (AS2CO); and Principal Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and Caribbean Region (LACCE).

Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-08
  • Subfundos
  • 1967, 1970 - 1973

Sub-fonds consists of records created and received by Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski during his employment at the World Bank between 1971 and 1973. Records were filed according to subject title and record types, including: Latin American development; seminars; commodity trading and development; general economics; Bank operations and planning; speechwriting for the Office of the President; seminars; Country Program Papers (CPPs); and World Tables. Records related to the Bank's Research Committee are also included.

Johannes F. Linn files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-29
  • Subfundos
  • 1973 - 1993

This sub-fonds consists of chronological files created by Johannes Linn during his time in a variety of positions at the World Bank, including: the Urban and Regional Economics Division of the Economics Department (ECDRB) and its successor the Development Economics Department (DEDRB) of the Development Policy Vice Presidency (DPS); the East Asia and Pacific Vice Presidency (AENVP) and Asia Regional Vice Presidency (ASI); the Development Economist and Chief Economist Vice Presidency (DECVP); and the Vice President of the Financial Policy and Risk Management Vice Presidency (FPRVP). Note that this sub-fonds does not contain records from his time as Vice President of the Europe and Central Asia Regional Vice Presidency (ECAVP). Chronological files contain correspondence and memoranda primarily between Linn and World Bank colleagues; a smaller amount are between Linn and external individuals and institutions.

Callisto Madavo files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-27
  • Subfundos
  • October 1991 - December 2002

Fonds contains chronological correspondence files created by Madavo and his staff from 1991 to 2002 covering his time as Director in the Africa Regional Vice Presidency (AFRVP) and East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice Presidency (EAPVP) and as Regional Vice President of AFRVP. The fonds also contains speeches given by Madavo between 1996 and 2001 while serving as Regional Vice President of AFRVP.

Syed Shahid Husain files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-22
  • Subfundos
  • January 1993 - March 1995

Sub-fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence files maintained by or for Syed Shahid Husain during his employment as Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LACVP) from 1987 to 1994, and Vice President for Management and Personnel Services (MPSVP) from 1994 to 1995.

Timothy Campbell files

  • WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-12
  • Subfundos
  • 1988 - 1999

Fonds consists of chronological files created by Timothy Campbell during his employment in the Latin America and Caribbean Region and Transportation, Water and Urban Development Department. Records from his time in the World Bank Institute (WBI) are not present. The majority of the records in this fonds provide evidence of Campbell's research activities and his communication and collaboration with agencies and institutions external to the Bank. As such, the majority of the records take the form of researchmaterials, drafts of articles and reports, and correspondence.

Records of the Strategy and Policy Division, Incentives and Comparative Advantage (INCA) Unit

  • WB IBRD/IDA IND-07
  • Subfundos
  • 1953 - 1985 (predominant 1970 - 1985)

The sub fonds contains records documenting various activities of the Incentives and Comparative Advantage (INCA) unit established in August 1981 initially within the Industrial Development and Finance Department in the Central Projects Staff (CPS) and later incorporated within the Industry Department, Strategy and Policy Division (INDSP). The records reflect organization and management of the unit, support of INCA studies conducted in various developing countries, and development of applied research products and tools. Earlier records from the early to late 1970s were created and maintained by the Development Research Center (DRC) unit within the Development Policy Vice Presidency (VPD) that conducted INCA research and ad hoc support during this period.

Records of Sir Denis Rickett

Sir Denis Rickett was Vice President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1974. The records are a series of subject files that include copies of reports and memos and well as personal correspondence and notes.

The Committee of Twenty, formally the Committee of the Board of Governors on Reform of the International Monetary System and Related issues, was established in 1972. Rickett served as the Bank's representative to the Committee from March 1973 until June 1974, and the files consist of Rickett's correspondence, memos and reports of the meetings of the committee as well as memos and documents from the Committee's Technical Group on the SDR Link.

The Council of Europe files contain Rickett's correspondence as well as agendas, reports and the records of the January 1970 convention on development in which Rickett participated as a discussant. Files on conferences contain correspondence and reports relating to conferences to which Rickett was invited and copies of speeches he delivered.

The Pearson Commission on development issues was established in 1968 under the chairmanship of Lester B. Pearson. Rickett's files on the Pearson commission consist of copies of J. Burke Knapp's correspondence (Knapp was also a Vice President of the Bank during this period), memos and reports on the Commission as well as the original letters Lester Pearson received from heads of states and other VIPS in response to his report Partners in Development. The Canadian International Development Authority commissioned a study in 1971 to look at the World Bank over the next decade. Written by Escott Reid, the draft of the study is in the Rickett files, along with a summary of the report and copies of comments on the draft by Bank staff members.

Other files contain memos and Bank reports on debt problems and energy and oil issues during the 1973-1974 oil crisis.

Records of Mohamed Shoaib

Mohamed Shoaib was Vice President of the World Bank from 1966-1976, having previously served as the Alternate Executive Director, Executive Director, and Governor of the Bank from Pakistan. The documents in this file concern the Williamsburg II meeting held in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, in 1972. The meeting was a continuation of a previous meeting at which high-level officials from the Bank, other international organizations, and foreign governments discussed development issues for a particular region in itsbroad political and security context. The Williamsburg II meeting focused on Southeast Asia, the balance of power in the region after the Vietnam war, the role of China in the region, and the special problems of the overseas Chinese. The file contains an informal running account of the discussions, the program and a list of participants, a summary, and what appear to be Shoaib's handwritten notes during the meeting.