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Leonard B. Rist - IBRD Reserves - Correspondence - 1957 - 1968 Leonard B. Rist - Memorandum on Loan Charges and Relevant Documentation - Correspondence - Volume... Leonard B. Rist - Term of Bank Loans - Correspondence - 1963 - 1964 Leonard B. Rist - Memorandum on Loan Charges and Relevant Documentation - Correspondence - Volume... Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy - Correspondence - Volume 3 Leonard B. Rist - President Eugene R. Black Files - Correspondence - Volume 2 - 1952 - 1953 Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy - Correspondence - Volume 2 Leonard B. Rist - Bank and IDA Financial Policy - Correspondence - Volume 2 - January 1963 - Octo... Policy Issues of Importance - Correspondence 04 Leonard B. Rist - Market Loans - Correspondence - 1964 - 1967 Leonard B. Rist - President Eugene Black Round the World Trip - Correspondence - Volume 1 - 1952 ... Leonard B. Rist - United Kingdom Credit Conditions - Correspondence - 1945 - 1957 Leonard B. Rist - French Oil Exploration - Correspondence and Reports - French - 1957 - 1958 Leonard B. Rist - Bank and IDA Financial Policy - Correspondence - Volume 1 - December 1960 - Dec... Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy, Reserves - Correspondence - Volume 2 Policy Issues of Importance - Correspondence 03 Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy - Correspondence - Volume 1 Leonard B. Rist - Memorandum on Loan Charges and Relevant Documentation - Correspondence - Volume... Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy, Reserves - Correspondence - Volume 1 Leonard B. Rist - IBRD Nine Percent Files - Subscriptions - Correspondence - Volume 1 - 1963 - 1964 Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy - Correspondence - Volume 4 Leonard B. Rist - Memorandum on Loan Charges and Relevant Documentation - Correspondence - Volume... Policy Issues of Importance - Correspondence 01 Leonard B. Rist - President Eugene Black Round the World Trip - Correspondence - Volume 3 - 1952 ... Leonard B. Rist - Information Conferences - Speeches - 1949 - 1950 Policy Issues of Importance - Correspondence 05 Leonard B. Rist - Loan Policy - Correspondence - Volume 5 Personnel Files, Archives, Research Department (Memos regarding the function of the Research Depa... Leonard B. Rist - IBRD Nine Percent Files - Subscriptions - Correspondence - Volume 2 - 1964 - 1968 Leonard B. Rist - European Investment Bank - Correspondence Leonard B. Rist - Interest Equalization Tax - Correspondence Policy Issues of Importance - Correspondence 02

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WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-09-01

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  • 1945 - 1968 (Creation)

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2.35 linear feet of textual records

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Series contains records maintained by Leonard B. Rist from the early period of IBRD history primarily when he first served as Director of the Research Department, later Economics Department between 1946 and 1960. Records are varied and include correspondence and speeches that Rist drafted for President Eugene Black during the period 1947-1953 and an information packet prepared for Black's 1952 trip on which Rist and other senior staff accompanied him to Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Thailand, and Australia. Also included is a file of Rist's speeches to the information conferences (1949-1959), two or three-day sessions at the Bank where groups of individuals in the finance profession would be introduced the Bank and its operations (1949-1951), a file on establishing the Research Department in 1946, and files on loan policy, 1946-1967. Records from the 1950s relate to the European Investment Bank and French oil exploration, and UK credit conditions covering 1945-1957. In 1963 and 1964 while he was Special Adviser to the President, Rist chaired the Committee on Loan Charges, and these files include correspondence on the Committee's Memorandum on Loan Charges (1964). Other files (1960-1968) relate to terms of Bank loans, market loans, IBRD reserves and 9% subscriptions, and Bank and IDA financial policy.

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Files are arranged by subject and chronologically within the files.

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Records are subject to the World Bank Access to Information Policy.

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Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

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  • Records of the Office of the President -- Records of President Eugene R. Black (WB IBRD/IDA EXC-02).

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27 January 2020

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