This series contains subject files maintained by Goldstein while serving as managing director and chief financial officer (MDCFO), 1999-2004. The bulk of the materials were created during Goldstein's Bank tenure, but a few files contain copies of items originally created prior to his arrival in 1999. Files in this series contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, discussion papers, meeting minutes, presentation materials, and other records.

The contents of the subject files reflect the entire range of Goldstein's responsibilities and activities as MDCFO. Major topics include:

• Management of the World Bank's internal and external financial affairs, including resource mobilization, Bank-administered trust funds, guarantees, lending, and oversight of the Bank's efforts in client countries to strengthen their financial and capital market systems

• International Development Association (IDA) replenishments IDA12 to IDA14

• Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative

• Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM)

• Sovereign debt and macroeconomic frameworks, including debt sustainability, external debt, and the development of guidelines for public debt management

• Integrity of financial operations in the World Bank, as represented in records related to the Audit Committee, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED), the Internal Auditing Department (IAD), the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and the inclusion of both unaudited and audited statements for World Bank operations

• Risk management for the World Bank, including files on the Risk Management Committee and Task Force, market risk exposures, credit risk and loan loss provisioning, and stress testing

• Stability and integrity of the global financial system

• Coordination with World Bank shareholders and other international financial institutions, as seen in files on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the G-7/G-8 and G-20, meetings with United States government officials, and World Bank Executive Directors and Board meetings

• World Bank corporate strategy and strategic planning, including files on the 2001 Strategic Framework, the annual Strategic Forum meetings, and the work of the Corporate Strategy Group

• World Bank budget , including records related to budget planning, management, and reform; quarterly business reviews with Bank vice presidents and managing directors; business plans; strategy documents; and materials for meetings of the Budget Committee

Also included in this series are country files maintained by Goldstein about World Bank activities and relations with several member countries from 1999 to 2004. Files contain background information, internal correspondence, Bank policy documents, meeting notes, and other documents about Bank strategy and risk management in certain countries. Many of the files in this series relate to the Bank's work in countries that were experiencing economic distress, conflict, or political changes during this period.

This series consists of chronological correspondence files assembled by Goldstein's office, predominantly from December 2001 until Goldstein's retirement from the Bank in October 2004. Included are copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, faxes, and printed emails. Communications are with both internal and external correspondents. In addition to correspondence directly to or from Goldstein, the series includes copies of correspondence received by the Office of the President (EXC) and forwarded to Goldstein for action or information.

The records relate to Goldstein's various responsibilities as managing director, including:

• World Bank's internal and external financial affairs

• Integrity of the Bank's financial operations, including reports from the Internal Auditing Department (IAD)

• International Development Association's 13th and 14th replenishments (IDA13 and IDA14)

• Country strategy papers and policy framework papers for specific countries

• Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative

• The Bank's relations with G-8 shareholder countries

• Bank corporate strategy

Some personal correspondence is also included.

This series contains records relating to the World Bank's liaison with external organizations. Records in this series originated in the various units responsible for liaison with external organizations in the External Relations department/vice presidency. However, due to records management practices in the Bank between 1946 and 1978, some of the records in this series originated in departments other than those focused exclusively on liaison activities. This is described in more detail below. Also note that, beginning in 1987, most of the liaison functions in the Bank were removed from the External Relations vice presidency for two brief periods: 1987 to 1990, and 1993 to 2002. Please see the Administrative History field in the Records of the Office of External Relations fonds description for more information on the organizational history of the liaison function in the Bank. Also see the Related Units of Description field below for the location of those post-1987 records related to the liaison function created in units outside of External Relations that are not contained in this series.

This series consists of records that were classified as "liaison files" or "United Nations liaison files" in the Bank's 'General' or 'Central' filing systems. These records date from 1946 to 1978 (with the exception of 1969 to 1971; please see Related Units of Description below). While records classified in this manner originated in departments from across the Bank (including the Office of the President), the majority of the 'General' and 'Central' files originated in the Technical Assistance and Liaison Staff (TAL, 1946-1961), Development Services Department (DSD, 1961-1973), and International Relations Department (IRD, 1973-1978).

Note that, from the beginning of the Bank's General Files classification system in 1946, "liaison files" and "United Nations liaison files" were classified separately. This likely occurred because the Bank's relationshipwith the UN and its agencies was more involved than with any other external organization. In 1964, as the Bank's collaboration with the UN in fields like agriculture and education was increasing, the Bank created a separate position called the Special Representative to the United Nations within DSD separate from staff responsible for liaison with non-UN external organizations. In 1965 the Special Representative moved to New York and opened an office at the United Nations headquarters. In 1978 a second World Bank UN Office was opened in Geneva, Switzerland.

Both the "liaison files" or "United Nations liaison files" consist of communications with external organizations with whom the Bank had a relationship. Organizations include governmental and international agencies, development banks, religious groups, academic institutions, and private foundations. Records relating to communications with the United Nations and its many agencies (United Nations Development Program [UNDP], Food and Agriculture Organizations [FAO], etc.) are the most voluminous in this series. The volume of records relating to communications with non-UN organizations and governments can be sizable (the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development [OECD] or the United States government and its legislators, for example) or as small as a single folder.

The most common correspondence in this series are invitations to or requests for participation in meetings, conferences, seminars, workshops, training courses, and similar events. In addition to correspondence with external organizations, records related to event participation and coordination also include internal memoranda, Terms of Reference, back-to-office reports, meeting agendas, conference programs, and press releases.

Records relating to collaboration or partnership on joint projects, research, and missions are also common, particularly in those records relating to the UN and its agencies. These records are generally limited to work program development, information sharing, and logistical planning. The records also relate to the exchange of information (including mission schedules, policy proposals, sector studies, etc., most of which are not included with the correspondence), and request for comment.

The Bank-wide 'General' and 'Central' filing practice was discontinued in 1978, and a new Non-Regional Information Center (NRIC) was created to manage records created by non-operational units including the External Relations' International Relations Department (IRD). Unlike the records of the 'General' and 'Central' files, records from the NRIC, which existed from 1978 to 1986, and those subsequently transferred to the World Bank Group Archives directly from units responsible for external liaison include only those that originated in units responsible for the function. The exceptions are those records that were shared with these departments by other Bank units. Note that most of the records relating to external liaison that were created while the external liaison function was housedoutside of the External Relations Vice Presidency from 1987 to 1990 and 1993 to 2002 are included. To locate those arranged in other fonds, please see the Related Units of Description field below.

Topics contained in the NRIC and subsequent records are similar to those in the 'General' or 'Central' files, but with some additions. Beginning around 1980, the Bank's engagement with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) intensified. Records relating to the Bank's communication and collaboration with NGOs as well as the development of policy for interacting with NGOs are contained in this series. Likewise, records relating to the Bank's interaction with civil society also become more numerous throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Records relating to external meeting and conference attendance are also included as are records related to external liaison staff's participation in World Bank Group spring and annual meetings. Background and briefing materials for senior Bank management prepared by EXT units responsible for meetings with external organizations are contained in this series. Many of these briefing materials were prepared for World Bank Group presidents Lewis Preston, James Wolfensohn, Paul Wolfowitz, and Robert Zoellick. Finally, a small amount of records relating to the organization and management of the units responsible for external liaison over time, including the New York and Geneva offices, are contained in this series. These records primarily relate to staff retreats where strategy and work programs were developed.

Records relating to the Bank's European field office in Paris, France, are also included in this series. The records date from 1949, when Drew Dudley, Director of Public Relations for Europe, arrived in Paris, to 1980. The records of the European office relate to its primary role as Bank representative to European governments, central banks and other financial institutions, international organizations, and the European media, academic institutions, and business community. Records also relate to other activities, including the arrangement for the sale of Bank securities in Europe, carrying out information programs, and performing administrative functions. Records consist of correspondence with Bank staff, including Bank presidents, in Washington, DC. Topics include logistical matters, reports on meetings, and exchange of information.

Records relating to the Tokyo office, which opened in November 1970, are also included in this series. The office was concerned with facilitating liaison between the Bank and the Japanese government and the Japanese financial community. It also served as a source of information for the Japanese press and public. Tokyo office records date from 1974 to 1975 and relate to communications with the Japanese government and media, administrative functions, and information exchange and publication.

The series also contains records from 1983 to 1987 relating to general policy and analysis undertaken by IRD in support of liaison with NGOs and other external organizations. Records relate to food security, poverty, debt, and the environment and contain reports, internal memoranda, communications with external organizations, logistical plans for meetings, and back-to-office reports.

The series also contains thematic subject files created and used by EXT units responsible for liaison with external organizations. Topics include gender, human rights, indigenous peoples, partnerships, structural adjustment, private sector investment, etc. These types of records generally date from the 1980s through 2010 and contain a variety of materials, such as: correspondence and internal memoranda; conference materials; and external publications.

The records of the World Bank's Grant Committee are also contained in this series. In 1981, the Bank's system for making grants to development institutions and conferences was streamlined and consolidated within the External Relations Department. From 1981 to 1987, IRD provided the staff for the roles of chairman and secretary. Records include meeting minutes, internal memoranda, and correspondence with external organizations relating to their requests for funding. Records date from 1981 to 1987 and 1990 to 1993.

Records related to the Robert S. McNamara Fellowship Fund are also included in this series. The fund was proposed in 1981 and awarded its first fellowships in 1983. Records relate to the setting up of the fund, raising funds from Bank members, the establishment of a selection committee, and the awarding of fellowships. Records date from 1981 to 1986.

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 economic research to provide insights into the development process rested with the persons serving as the Economic Adviser to the President in the 1960s and early 1970s, and later with the offices of the Vice President, Development Policy (VPD) and the Vice President, Economics and Research Staff (VPERS) whose records are part of this fonds. Files for both approved and rejected research projects in planning and development policy, population and human resources, industry and trade, and sector studies that were maintained in the offices of VPD, VPERS, and DECVP are included in this fonds.

This fonds also contains a small volume of records of the Bank's Economic Development Institute and records of the Bank's representatives to international organizations concerned with the development process: the Berne Union, the Paris Club, and U.N. organizations at Geneva, Switzerland. Also included are records of economist Bela Belassa who served from September 1966 to May 1991 as consultant to the Economic Advisers to the President, VPD, VPERS, and DECVP.

The following officials served during the period 1964 to 2003 in predecessor organizations or positions whose functions became part of DECVP in the 1987 Bank reorganization and as DECVP following that reorganization:

Economic Advisers

• Irving Friedman: 1964 - 1970

• Hollis B. Chenery: 1970 - 1972

Vice President, Development Policy (VPD)

• Hollis B. Chenery: November 1972 - February 1982

Vice President, Economics and Research Staff (VPERS)

• Hollis B. Chenery: February 1982 - August 1982

• Anne Krueger: August 1982 - December 1986

• Benjamin B. King (Acting): January 1987 - May 1987

Vice President and Chief Economist (DECVP)

• Stanley Fischer: 1988 - 1990

• Lawrence Summers: 1991 - 1993

• Michael Bruno: 1993- 1996

• Joseph E. Stiglitz: 1997 - 2000

• Sir Nicholas H. Stern: 2000 - 2003.

Sub-fonds consists of the records of the Office of the Vice President, Development Economics (DECVP) and Chief Economist and the Senior Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist. These records take the form of Vice President's chronological and subject files as well as briefing books and travel documents. Records of DEC's Front Office staff included in this sub-fonds include reading files, work program and budget records, and reports of periodic review. Records of numerous DEC units are also included in this sub-fonds. They include: the Policy and Review Department (PRD); Development Policy Group (DPG, and its predecessor units: the Economic Advisory Staff [EAS] and the Country Policy Department [CPD]); the International Economics Department (IEC); the Country Economics Department (CEC); the Development Research Group (DECRG); the Policy Review Department (PRD); the Research Advisory Staff (RAD); and the Economic Developing Institute (EDI). The records of noted economist Bela Balassa who served as a consultant with DEC and predecessor organizations from 1966 to 1991 are also included.

The series consists of documents sent electronically within RAD, to other parts of DEC, and to other Bank organizations by the Research Administrator and other RAD staff concerning the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), The World Bank Economic Review, the annual report of the World Bank Research Program, the World Bank Visiting Research Fellows Program (VRFP), research and conference funding, the Working Papers series, and research and conference proposals.

Series consists of incoming and outgoing chronological correspondence, internal memoranda, and attachments created or received by Gloria Davis primarily during her position as director of the Social Development Department (SDV) from 1997 until her retirement in 2000. One file contains some correspondence and memoranda maintained by Davis as division chief of the Social Policy and Resettlement Division, Environment Department (ENVSP) in July 1997 prior to fully transitioning to the new SDV department. Topics represented in this series include: meeting attendance and planning; operational support and project status; World Bank Operational Manual Policy OP 4.12 Involuntary Resettlement and OP 2.30 Development Cooperation and Conflict; research activities and papers; engagement with external partners (NGOs, United Nations); trust fund proposals; retrospective program review; departmental budget monitoring and resource allocation; and staffing and personnel management.

Series consists of records related to the research activities and development of policies and guidelines created and maintained by Social Development Department (SDV) units and by the Bank's sociologists prior to SDV's formation. Most of the research comprised in this series was undertaken by Rural Sociological Adviser Michael Cernea, Anthropologist Scott Guggenheim and others in the 1990s. A large volume of records were generated during the study and publication of various reports including Resettlement and development: The Bankwide review of projects involving involuntary resettlement (1986-1993) (1994) and contain country and project files involving cases of resettlement (1978 - 2001).

Many records also relate to the Sociology of the Bank history project (1973 - 1997) and includes research material covering themes such as project appraisal, the informal Bank Sociological Group

formed and led by Cernea, sociological awareness and socialawareness training, Social Strategy Task Force, and the history of the Bank policy on financing land purchases initiated in or around 1987. Record types include memoranda, correspondence, Terms of Reference, internal announcements, reports, research papers, and articles.

Series also includes email and slide presentation hard copies, project summaries, working papers, and background research material primarily maintained by Senior Economist Christian Grootaert (SDV) dating from 1996 to 2002. Grootaert was the task manager of the Social Capital Initiative (SCI), also called the Initiative on Defining, Monitoring and Measuring Social Capital, launched in 1996. With the financial assistance of the government of Denmark, the initiative funded twelve projects designed to help define and measure social capital and improve monitoring. The records also document meetings of the SCI Steering Committee. Grootaert was also task manager of the Local Level Institutions (LLI) studies that analyzed the role, capacity, andeffectiveness of local organizations (both formal and informal) in developing countries, with a focus on Indonesia, Bolivia, and Burkina Faso. Records relate to the LLI country studies and working meetings. Both the SCI and LLI initiatives also produced a series of working papers published by SDV.