IMF Archives: Finding Aids

African Department Records

African Department Immediate Office Records

AFRAI Subject Files

Date(s): inclusive 1961-1999, predominant 1963-1989
Level of description: Series
Extent and medium: 21 linear feet of textual records

Content and structure

Scope and content: Series contains general subject files maintained by the African Department Immediate Office regarding economic issues and AFR Department and IMF administration, policies and operations. Based on the number of files on each subject, the most prevalent economic issues are: designation plans and operational budgets; exchange rates; oil facility; Special Drawing Rights; Stand-by Arrangements; and use of Fund resources. Prevalent files on departmental and IMF operations cover: annual meetings; World Bank/IMF collaboration; visitors; weekly forecasts; consultations; and publications by AFR staff. Annual meeting files demonstrate the Department's role in preparing for, participating in and undertaking subsequent activities for the meetings. They are grouped by year with titles such as: Annual Meeting - General; African Caucus; Briefing Papers; Documents; and Representation. Overall, records consist of: correspondence - letters and cables - from external organizations and academic institutions; internal memoranda circulated to heads of departments for review and comments; speeches of the Managing Director circulated for comments; briefing and background notes on country activities prepared for management; guest lists, menus, and cables with general travel arrangements for events hosted by AFR; draft publications by AFR staff as well as publications from external sources, such as IBRD (later the World Bank), circulated within the Department for comments; memoranda with the Department's contribution to interdepartmental papers, Institute courses and IMF publications; meeting minutes; Board Documents; and press releases. Files are arranged in alphabetical order and then chronologically.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: Some files from the AFR Division Files series were found to contain material that duplicated or matched closely with material found in this series. Consequently, the remaining non-duplicate material was incorporated into this or the AFR Country Desk Files series, and the duplicate AFR Division File was discarded.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access and reproduction: Series is open according to the Archives Access Policy. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restrictions. Box 43 holds closed files and documents from the series.

Associated Materials

Related units of description: Technical Assistance files in this series, like those found in AFR Division Files, generally include records which reflect technical assistance as a general function of the IMF, as opposed to specific technical assistance issues in member countries. Technical assistance files in AFR Country Desk Files series relate to a technical assistant on assignment, as opposed to the recruitment and placement of the assistant as found in the AFRAI Technical Assistance Files series. Functional departments, such as FAD or CBS, were responsible for most technical assistance missions and may have more complete information on file.


File 1/1

Africa - General. — 1974-1985

File 1/2

African Department Director's Office. — 1990

File 1/3

[African Department] Director's Office. — November 1990-January 1991

File 2/1

African Department, General. — 1990-1991

File 2/2

Annual Meetings - General. — 1963-1968

File 2/3

African Group/Caucus 1967. — 1966-1968

File 2/4

Annual Meeting 1968. — 1968

File 2/5

Annual Meeting 1968 - African Department Reception, October 3. — 1968

File 2/6

African Group Caucus - 1968. — 1968

File 2/7

Annual Meeting 1968 - Country Briefs. — 1968

File 2/8

Annual Meeting 1968 - Seminar on SDR's. — 1968

File 2/9

Annual Meeting 1969. — 1969

File 2/10

Annual Meeting 1969 - African Department Reception, September 30. — 1969

File 3/1

African Group Caucus - 1969. — 1969-1970

File 3/2

Annual Meeting - 1969 - Country Briefs. — 1969

File 3/3

Representation - 1969 Annual Meeting. — 1969

File 3/4

Annual Meeting - 1970 - Copenhagen. — 1970

File 3/5

African Group Caucus - 1970. — 1970-1971

File 3/6

African Group Caucus - 1971. — 1971-1972

File 3/7

Annual Meeting - 1973. — 1973

File 3/8

Annual Meetings. — 1974-1976

File 3/9

Annual Meeting - 1977 - General. — 1977

File 3/10

Annual Meeting - 1977 - African Caucus. — 1977

File 3/11

Annual Meeting Arrangements - General. — 1978-1985

File 3/12

Annual Meeting 1978. — 1977-1978

File 3/13

Annual Meeting - 1978 - African Caucus. — 1978-1979

File 4/1

Annual Meeting 1978 - Country Briefs. — 1978

File 4/2

Annual Meeting - 1978 - Documents. — 1978

File 4/3

Annual Meeting 1978 - Luncheons and Representation. — 1978

File 4/4

Annual Meetings - 1979 - General (Yugoslavia). — 1978-1979

File 4/5

Annual Meeting - 1979 - African Caucus. — 1979-1980

File 4/6

Annual Meeting - 1979 - Country Briefs. — 1979

File 4/7

Annual Meeting - 1979 - Documents. — 1979

File 4/8

Annual Meeting - 1979 - Luncheons and Representation. — 1979

File 5/1

Annual Meeting - 1980. — 1979-1980

File 5/2

Annual Meetings - 1980 - African Caucus. — 1980-1981

File 5/3

Annual Meeting - 1980 - Country Briefs. — 1980

File 5/4

Annual Meeting - 1980 - Documents. — 1980

File 5/5

Annual Meeting - 1980 - Luncheons and Representations. — 1980

File 5/6

Annual Meeting - 1981 - General. — 1981-1982

File 5/7

Annual Meeting - 1981 - African Caucus. — 1981

File 6/1

Annual Meeting - 1981 - Country Briefs. — 1981

File 6/2

Annual Meeting - 1981 - Luncheons and Representation. — 1981

File 6/3

African Caucus (African Contact Group). — 1981-1982

File 6/4

Annual Meeting - 1982 - General. — 1982

File 6/5

Annual Meeting - 1982 - African Caucus. — 1982

File 6/6

Annual Meeting 1982 - Country Briefs. — 1982

File 6/7

Annual Meeting - 1982 - Luncheons and Representation. — 1982

File 6/8

Annual Meeting - 1983 - General. — 1983

File 6/9

Annual Meeting - 1983 - African Caucus. — 1983

File 6/10

Annual Meeting - 1983 - Country Briefs. — 1983

File 7/1

Annual Meeting - 1983 - Documents. — 1983

File 7/2

Annual Meeting - 1983 - Luncheons and Representation. — 1983

File 7/3

African Caucus - 1983. — 1983

File 7/4

Annual Meeting - 1984 - General. — 1984

File 7/5

Annual Meeting - 1984 - African Caucus. — 1984

File 7/6

Annual Meeting - 1984 - Country Briefs. — 1984

File 8/1

Annual Meeting - 1984 Documents. — 1984

File 8/2

Annual Meeting - 1984 - Luncheon & Representation. — 1984

File 8/3

Annual Meeting - 1985 - General. — 1985

File 8/4

Annual Meeting - African Caucus - 1985. — 1985

File 8/5

Annual Meeting - Country Briefs - 1985. — 1985

File 8/6

Annual Meeting - 1985 - Documents. — 1985

File 9/1

Annual Meeting - Luncheons & Representation 1985. — 1985

File 9/2

Annual Meeting - General 1986. — 1986

File 9/3

Annual Meeting - 1986 - African Caucus. — 1986

File 9/4

Annual Meeting - Country Briefs - 1986. — 1986

File 9/5

Annual Meeting - Documents - 1986. — 1986

File 9/6

Annual Meeting -1986 - Luncheon & Representation. — 1986

File 9/7

Annual Meeting Arrangements - General - 1986. — 1986

File 10/1

Annual Meeting - 1987 - General. — 1987

File 10/2

Annual Meeting - 1987 - African Caucus. — 1987

File 10/3

Annual Meeting - 1987 - Country Brief. — 1987

File 10/4

Annual Meeting - 1987 - Documents. — 1987

File 10/5

Annual Meeting - 1987 - Luncheons and Representation. — 1987

File 10/6

Annual Meeting Arrangements - 1987. — 1987

File 10/7

Annual Meeting - 1988 - General. — 1988

File 10/8

Annual Meeting - 1988 - African Caucus. — 1988-1989

File 10/9

Annual Meeting - 1988 - Country Brief. — 1988

File 10/10

Annual Meeting - 1988 - Documents. — 1988

File 11/1

Annual Meeting - 1988 - Luncheons & Representations. — 1988

File 11/2

Annual Meeting Arrangements - 1988. — 1988

File 11/3

Annual Meeting - African Caucus - 1989. — 1989-1990

File 11/4

Balance of Payments - Technical Assistance. — 1968

File 11/5

Bank/Fund Collaboration - General (Volume I). — 1966-1980

File 11/6

Bank/Fund Collaboration - General (Volume II). — 1980-1982

File 11/7

Bank/Fund Collaboration - General - Volume III. — 1982-1984

File 11/8

Bank/Fund Collaboration - [General]. — 1985

File 12/1

Bank/Fund Collaboration - [General]. — 1986-1987

File 12/2

Bank/Fund Collaboration - [General]. — 1988

File 12/3

Bank/Fund Collaboration - Missions. — 1966-1979

File 12/4

Bank/Fund Collaboration - Missions. — 1980-1990

File 12/5

Bank/Fund Collaboration - Special - Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa. — 1985-1988

File 12/6

Bank Debt Restructuring. — 1984

File 12/7

Brief notes on effects of the present international monetary situation on less developed countries. — 1971

File 12/8

Bureau of Statistics Technical Assistance Program. — 1969-1970

File 12/9

Capital Controls. — 1961

File 13/1

Classification of Countries. — 1979, 1984

File 13/2

Commercial Banks, Relations with the Fund - (Vol. I). — 1977

File 13/3

Commercial Banks, Relations with the Fund - (Vol. II). — 1977-1980

File 13/4

Commercial Credits. — 1968, 1973

File 13/5

Commodity Prices. — 1974

File 13/6

Commodity Prices. — 1980-1984

File 13/7

Commodity Prices. — 1985-1988

File 14/1

Compensatory Contingency Financing Facility (CCFF). — 1988-1989

File 14/2

Compensatory Financing. — 1965-1966, 1969

File 14/3

Compensatory financing and buffer stocks. — 1975-1979

File 14/4

Compensatory financing and buffer stocks. — 1980-1987

File 14/5

Compensatory Financing Facility (CFF) and Buffer Stocks. — 1988

File 15/1

Conference on International Economic Cooperation and Related Commissions. — 1975-1977

File 15/2

Consultations - Articles VIII and XIV. — 1973-1975

File 15/3

Consultations - Briefings for Executive Directors. — 1978-1979

File 15/4

Consultations - Briefings for Executive Directors. — 1980-1989

File 15/5

Consultations - Practices and Procedures. — 1970-1975

File 15/6

Consultations - Practices and Procedures. — 1977-1979

File 15/7

Consultations - Practices and Procedures. — 1980-1984

File 15/8

Consultations - Practices and Procedures. — 1985

File 16/1

Consultations - Practices and Procedures. — 1985-1990

File 16/2

Consultations - Practices and Procedures. — 1987-1999

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File is closed until 2019.


File 16/3

Consultations - Special (External Policies). — 1976-1980

File 16/4

Consultations - Transmittal of REDs [Recent Economic Developments] to Outside Agencies. — 1979

File 16/5

Consultations - Transmittal of REDs [Recent Economic Developments] to Outside Agencies. — 1980

File 16/6

Consultations - Transmittal of REDs [Recent Economic Developments] to Outside Agencies. — 1981

File 16/7

Consultations - Transmittal of REDs [Recent Economic Developments] to Outside Agencies. — 1982-1983

File 17/1

Consultations - Transmittal of REDs [Recent Economic Developments] to Outside Agencies. — 1985

File 17/2

Consultative Group on International and Monetary Affairs. — 1978-1984

File 17/3

Currency Budget. — 1974, 1977

File 17/4

Debt Management. — 1988

File 17/5

Debt Rescheduling Operations. — 1976-1984

File 18/1

Debt Rescheduling - Operations. — 1985-1988

File 18/2

Debt Settlements. — 1964, 1971

File 18/3

Designation Plan and Currency Budget. — 1972-1977

File 18/4

Designation Plan and Operational Budget. — January 1978-February 1980

File 18/5

Designation Plan and Operational Budget. — May 1980-December 1985

File 19/1

Designation Plan and Operational Budget [Volume I]. — 1984-1985

File 19/2

Designation Plan and Operational Budget Volum[e] II. — 1984-1985

File 19/3

Designation Plan and Operational Budget. — 1986-1987

File 19/4

Designation Plan and Operational Budget. — 1988

File 19/5

Devaluation of French Franc. — 1969

File 20/1

Development Committee. — 1975-1978, 1984-1988

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains Development Committee documents which are closed.


File 20/2

Drawings - Use of Currencies. — 1967-1971

File 20/3

ESAF [Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility]. — 1987-1988

File 21/1

Exchange Rates - General. — 1967-1974

File 21/2

Exchange Rates - General. — 1975-1981

File 21/3

Exchange Rates - General. — 1981-1983

File 21/4

Exchange Rates - General. — 1983

File 22/1

Exchange Rates - General. — 1984

File 22/2

E[x]change Rates - General. — 1985

File 22/3

Exchange Rates - General. — 1987

File 22/4

Exchange Rates - General. — 1988

File 23/1

Exchange Rates - General. — 1989

File 23/2

Exchange Rates, CFA Franc. — 1963-1977

File 23/3

Exchange Rates, Floating - Guidelines. — 1974-1975

File 23/4

Exchange Rates - Notification of and surveillance over. — 1978

File 23/5

Exchange Rates - Notification of and surveillance over. — 1978-1979

File 24/1

Exchange Rates - Notification of and surveillance over. — 1980-1984

File 24/2

Exchange Rates - Notification of and surveillance over. — 1985-1988

File 24/3

Exchange Rate - Surveillance (Article IV). — 1976-1977

File 24/4

Exchange Rate Surveillance. — 1984-1989

File 24/5

Exchange Rates - Surveillance Committee. — 1980-1983

File 25/1

Exchange Rates - Surveillance Committee. — 1984

File 25/2

[Executive Directors'] Informal Discussions. — 1965, 1969

File 25/3

Export Earnings, Stabilization of. — 1978

File 25/4

External Debt. — 1971

File 25/5

Fund Policies For Adjustment Under Current Conditions. — 1980-1983

File 25/6

Fund Pol[i]cies For Adjustment Under Current Conditions Vol. II. — 1984-1989

File 26/1

Gold. — 1975-1980

File 26/2

IMF Institute. — 1969-1972

File 26/3

[Administration] - IMF Institute. — 1973-1984

File 26/4

IMF Review. — 1963-1968

File 26/5

Initiation, Preparation, & Clearance of Papers for the Executive Board. — 1977-1978

File 26/6

Interim Committee - General. — 1975-1984

File 26/7

Interim Committee - General. — 1985-1989

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains Interim Committee documents which are closed.


File 26/8

Interim Committee. — 1989

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains Interim Committee documents which are closed.


File 26/9

International Banking, Committee on. — 1981-1988

File 27/1

International Capital Market. — 1979-1981

File 27/2

International Capital Market - Volume III. — 1984-1988

File 27/3

Managing Director. — 1990

File 27/4

Members with large payments imbalances. — 1980-1984

File 27/5

Mr Touré's Files. — 1989-1990

File 28/1

Oil Facility. — 1974

File 28/2

Oil Facility - General, Vol. I. — November 1974-March 1975

File 28/3

Oil Facility - General, Vol. II. — April 1975-December 1975

File 28/4

Oil Facility - General, Vol. III. — 1976-1979

File 28/5

Oil Facility - Special Subsidy Account. — 1975-1980

File 28/6

Overdue [Financial] Obligations. — 1985-1987

File 28/7

Overdue Financial Obligations. — January 1988-November 1988 (1)

Conditions governing access and reproduction: File contains Interim Committee documents which are closed.


File 28/8

Overdue Financial Obligations. — December 1988 (2)

File 28/9

Par values. — 1962-1972

File 29/1

Pre-par value transactions. — 1962

File 29/2

Preshipment Inspection of Imports (General Superintendance Co. of Geneva, Ltd.). — 1975-1979

File 29/3

The Press and External Relations Dep[artment]. — 1982-1988

File 29/4

Problem Countries. — 1984-1989

File 29/5

Protectionism. — 1978-1980, 1987, 1989

File 29/6

Publications - Annual Report. — 1974-1979

File 29/7

Publications - Balance of Payments Manual. — 1973-1975

File 29/8

Publications - Balance of Payments Yearbook. — 1974-1978

File 29/9

Publications - Directories. — 1990-1991

File 29/10

Publications - Directory of Regional Economic Organizations. — 1970-1971

File 29/11

Publications - Directory of Regional Economic Organizations. — 1973-1978

File 29/12

Publications - Econometric Model Manual. — 1978

File 29/13

Publications - Exchange Restrictions Report. — 1974-1987

File 29/14

Publications - Government Finance Statistics Manual. — 1973-1975

File 29/15

Publications - IFS [International Financial Statistics]. — 1961-1962, 1971, 1973-1977

File 29/16

Publications - IFS [International Financial Statistics]. — 1979-1988

File 30/1

Publications - IMF Survey. — 1973-1989

File 30/2

Publications - Miscellaneous. — 1968-1971

File 30/3

Publications - Miscellaneous. — 1983-1984

File 30/4

Publications - Miscellaneous. — 1985-1988

File 30/5

Quotas. — 1969, 1975-1979

File 30/6

Quotas - Vol. II. — 1983-1988

File 30/7

Recycling. — 1980

File 30/8

Saving. — 1989

File 30/9

Seminars and Conferences. — 1964-1976

File 30/10

Seminars and Conferences - Fifth Latin American Seminar on External Debt in Africa and Latin America... — 1989

General note: Title Note: Continuation of title...Cairo, Egypt, August 2-3, 1989.


File 31/1

Seminars and Conferences - Seminar for African University Professors. — 1970-1973

File 31/2

SDA [Special Disbursement Account] or SAF [Structural Adjustment Facility]. — 1986

File 31/3

Special Disbursement Account (SAD - Operational Aspect). — 1985-1990

File 31/4

Special Drawing Rights. — 1968-1969

File 31/5

Special Drawing Rights. — 1969-1972

File 31/6

Special Drawing Rights - Link to Development Aid. — 1973

File 31/7

Special Drawing Rights - Transactions - Requirement of Need. — 1970-1971

File 31/8

Special Drawing Rights - Transactions - Requirement of Need. — 1974-1988

File 32/1

Special Drawing Rights - Valuation and Interest Rates. — 1973-1985

File 32/2

SDRs - First Designation Plan, 1972. — 1971

File 32/3

SDRs, Second Designation Plan, 1972. — 1972

File 32/4

SDRs - Third Designation Plan, 1972. — 1971-1972

File 32/5

SDRs - Fourth Designation Plan, 1972. — 1972

File 32/6

Stand-by Arrangements. — 1968, 1970

File 32/7

Stand-by Arrangements - Vol. II. — 1970-1980

File 32/8

Stand-by Arrangements - Volume III. — 1981-1985

File 32/9

Stand-by Arrangements - General. — 1987

File 33/1

Stand-By Arrangements - Tranche Policies. — 1975-1984

File 33/2

Statistics. — 1974-1984

File 33/3

Statistics. — 1985-1990

File 33/4

Sterling Balances. — 1968-1970

File 33/5

Substitution Account. — 1978-1979

File 33/6

Supplementary Financing Facility. — 1977

File 33/7

Symposium - Africa and the IMF. — 1985

File 34/1

Trade. — 1974

File 34/2

Trade Development. — 1985-1989

File 34/3

Transmittal of Documents. — 1987-1990

File 34/4

Trips - 1966 - Managing Director. — 1965-1966

File 34/5

Trips - 1968 - Managing Director. — 1968

File 34/6

Trips - 1969 - Deputy Managing Director. — 1968-1969

File 34/7

Trips - 1972 - Managing Director. — 1971-1972

File 34/8

Trips - 1975 - Post Annual Meeting - Europe and Morocco. — 1975

File 34/9

Trips - 1978 - MD & Zulu (Cameroon & Ivory Coast); MD & Guenther (Nigeria). — 1976-1978

File 34/10

Trips - Mr. Zulu - 1979 - Sierra Leone May 23-25; Dakar (BCEAO Inauguration) May 25-29. — 1979

File 34/11

Trips - 1980...[Managing Director, J. B. Zulu & Oumar B. Makalou] -Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroon, Kenya... — 1979-1980

General note: Title note: full title as follows "Trips - 1980 - MD, JBZ & OBM [Managing Director, J. B. Zulu & Oumar B. Makalou] - Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Cameroon, Kenya (Jan. 17-Feb.2).


File 34/12

Trust Fund Vol. I. — 1975-1976

File 34/13

Trust Fund - [Kwame] Kwateng. — 1976-1980

File 34/14

Tunisia - Conference on Development - July 6-7, 1977 - E[dwin] L. Bornemann. — 1977

File 35/1

U.S. Import Surcharge. — 1971

File 35/2

Use of Fund resources. — 1968-1972

File 35/3

Use of Fund resources - General. — 1979-1981

File 35/4

Use of Fund resources (General). — 1981-1984

File 35/5

Use of Fund resources - General. — 1985-1986

File 36/1

Use of Fund resources - General. — 1987

File 36/2

Use of Fund resources - General. — 1988

File 36/3

Use of Fund Resources - General. — 1988-1989

File 36/4

Use of Fund resources - Conditionality - Vol. I. — 1977-1978

File 37/1

Use of Fund resources - Conditionality - Vol. II. — 1979-1984

File 37/2

Use of Fund resources - Conditionality. — 1985-1990

File 37/3

Use of Fund resources, Extended Fund Facility. — 1979-1986

File 37/4

Use of Fund resources, Extended Fund Facility. — 1973-1978

File 37/5

Use of Fund Resources - Extended Fund Facility. — 1987-1988

File 37/6

Use of Fund Resources - New Short-term Facility. — 1979-1981

File 37/7

Use of Fund Resources - Requirement of Need. — 1976-1977

File 38/1

Use of Fund Resources, Supplementary Financing Facility, Vol. II. — 1977-1980

File 38/2

Use of Fund Resources, Supplementary Financing Facility, Vol. III. — 1980-1988

File 38/3

Use of Fund Resources, Trust Fund Vol. II. — 1977-1979

File 38/4

Use of Fund Resources, Trust Fund Vol. III. — 1980-1982

File 38/5

Use of Fund Resources - Trust Fund. — 1985-1986

File 38/6

Use of Funds/Adjustment for Poverty & Heavily Indebted Countries. — 1988-1990

File 39/1

Visitors. — 1965, 1969-1971

File 39/2

Visitors. — 1972-1979

File 39/3

Visitors. — 1980-1986

File 39/4

Visitors. — 1987-1989

File 40/1

Weekly Forecast. — 1980-1981

File 40/2

Weekly Forecast. — 1982-1983

File 40/3

Weekly Forecast. — 1984-1985

File 41/1

Weekly Forecast. — 1986-1987

File 41/2

Weekly Forecast. — 1988

File 41/3

Work Program. — 1980-1981

File 41/4

Work Program. — 1984-1988

File 42/1

Work Program. — 1987-1988

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