Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1981 - 1989 (Production)
Niveau de description
Sous-fonds
Étendue matérielle et support
5.20 linear feet of textual records
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
W. David Hopper joined the World Bank in 1978 as the Vice President, South Asia Regional Office. A Canadian citizen, he had previously been the president and CEO of the International Development Research Centre in Canada; his background was in agricultural development. In May 1987 he was appointed Senior Vice President for Policy Planning and Research, a position he held until November 1989. During his service with the Bank he chaired the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)and the Special Program for African Agricultural Research. Hopper was a member of the Personnel and Administration Committee (PAC) and the Senior Management Council (SMC). He retired in April 1990.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
The records were transferred to the Archives in April 1990.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The small correspondence series from 1986 includes files on many of the countries in the South Asia region. The files include correspondence with leaders in the countries and internal Bank memoranda on projects, planned or in operation. This is clearly a fragment of a larger chronological series that was maintained for Hopper by the office staff.
The bulk of the sub-fonds consists of the office correspondence file from Hopper's period as Senior Vice President for Policy Planning and Research; it is arranged chronologically. The series apparently was begun by L. Richard Meyers, who was Special Assistant to Hopper, as the early files are marked DM Chron. The topics in the records include poverty and family planning programs focusing on women, the Bank's new environmental initiative, appreciation and criticism of the Bank's environmental role, especially with regard to rain forests and indigenous peoples, agricultural development, including genetic research and application of developmental agriculture in Africa, and administrative details of the new Policy Planning and Research Department.
The series on the Senior Management Council and the series on the Personnel and Administration Committee both begin with a set of minutes, followed by agendas and reports and memos. The series on the SMC also includes a set of monthly financial reports. Records are missing for several months in both series. The topics in the records include personnel policies, the Disaster Recovery Plan, security, long-term facilities planning, and information resources management.
The file unit on the work of the Operations Managers Review Group contains six items on the selection of operations managers.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Accruals are not expected.
Mode de classement
Records are arranged in four series and one file unit.
Series:
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Correspondence 1986
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Correspondence 1987-1989
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Records of the Senior Management Council
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Records of the Personnel and Administration Committee
File:
- Records of the Operations Managers Review Group
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.
Conditions de reproduction
Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Physical file unit list for series Correspondence 1986 is available.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).
Disclosure status
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
26 May 2004