IMF Archives: Finding Aids
Western Hemisphere Department Records
Western Hemisphere Department Immediate Office Records
WHDAI Economic Subject Files
Date(s): 1958-1989, predominant 1965-1986 |
Content and structure
Scope and content: Series consists of internal and external correspondence as well as copies of Board documents on a variety of economic subjects both general as well as specific to IMF activities and facilities. Subjects include: (1) the development of aspects of the IMF's work (annual meetings, relations with commercial banks, procedures and guidelines, external debt negotiations, consultations, surveillance, use of gold, statistics reporting liquidity, oil facility, arrears, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and World Economic Outlook; (2) country status and review and use of programs, (use of facilities, stand-by arrangements projections of need, currency budget, exchange practices, incomes policies and quotas); (3) general economic topics of interest (coffee, commodities, euro-currency, inflation and poverty); and (4) activities of and relations with external groups (Berne Union, Caribbean Aid Consortium and Paris Club).
Most of the files on IMF operational topics contain copies of draft papers and original comments from WHD division staff, as well as comments in the form of office memoranda copied to WHD from other departments and occasionally comments from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) on joint programs. In most cases, these papers eventually became staff memos to the Board and concern such areas as development of IMF facilities, refining procedures and guidelines, and approvals of members activities. Also significant in the files are questionnaires completed by divisional staff and compiled in the Immediate Office on a variety of economic topics for program reviews or updates. Aside from draft and final staff papers, office memoranda, and questionnaires, files also contain statements to the Board by Executive Directors and staff, country briefings, minutes, and informal notes on buck slips. Some press releases, copies of cables, external correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles and related documents are also in the files.
In earlier files, correspondence and Board documents on a given topic were often maintained by departmental administrative staff in separate files. Later, both types of records are integrated in the same file. In many cases, departmental administrative staff have weeded drafts of Board and other documents from the files. Files are arranged in their original order alphabetically by subject and chronologically within the subject.
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.
Language/script of material: English, Spanish
Associated Materials
Existence and location of copies: Board Documents are available in electronic form in the MF Institutional Repository (IR). Digitized Images
File 1/1 | Aid Untying. — 1970-1977 |
File 1/2 | Annual Meeting - General - (1). — 1968-1970 |
File 1/3 | Annual Meeting - General - (2). — 1970 |
File 1/4 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1969-1970 |
File 1/5 | Annual Meeting - Briefings. — 1971 |
File 2/1 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1970-1971 |
File 2/2 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1971 |
File 2/3 | Annual Meeting - Minutes. — 1971 |
File 3/1 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1971-1972 |
File 3/2 | Annual Meetings - Briefings. — 1972-1974 |
File 3/3 | Annual Meetings - Minutes. — 1972-1974 |
File 3/4 | Annual Meetings - WHD Arrangements. — 1974 |
File 3/5 | Annual Meetings - Briefings, Minutes. — 1974 |
File 4/1 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1975 |
File 4/2 | Annual Meetings - Hospitality. — 1975 |
File 4/3 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1975 |
File 4/4 | Annual Meeting - Briefings and Minutes. — 1976 |
File 4/5 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1976 |
File 4/6 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1976 |
File 5/1 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1977 |
File 5/2 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1977 |
File 5/3 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1977 |
File 5/4 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1978 |
File 5/5 | Annual Meeting - [General]. — 1978 |
File 5/6 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1978 |
File 6/1 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1978 |
File 6/2 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1979 |
File 6/3 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1979 |
File 6/4 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1979 |
File 6/5 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1979 |
File 7/1 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1980 |
File 7/2 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1980 |
File 7/3 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1980 |
File 7/4 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1980 |
File 7/5 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1981 |
File 8/1 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1981 |
File 8/2 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1981 |
File 8/3 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1981 |
File 8/4 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1982 |
File 8/5 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1982 |
File 9/1 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1982 |
File 9/2 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1982 |
File 9/3 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1983 |
File 9/4 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1983 |
File 9/5 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1983 |
File 10/1 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1984 |
File 10/2 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1984 |
File 10/3 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1984 |
File 10/4 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1984 |
File 10/5 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1985 |
File 11/1 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1985 |
File 11/2 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1985 |
File 11/3 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1985 |
File 11/4 | Annual Meeting - Briefings, Minutes. — 1986 |
File 11/5 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1986 |
File 11/6 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1986 |
File 11/7 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1986 |
File 11/8 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1987 |
File 12/1 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1987 |
File 12/2 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1987 |
File 12/3 | Annual Meeting - General. — 1988 |
File 12/4 | Annual Meeting - Hospitality. — 1988 |
File 12/5 | Annual Meeting - WHD Arrangements. — 1988 |
File 12/6 | Baker Initiative. — January 1986-June 1986 |
File 13/1 | Baker Initiative. — 1986 |
File 13/2 | Baker Initiative. — 1987 |
File 13/3 | Baker Initiative. — 1988 |
File 13/4 | Balance of Payments. — 1968-1975 |
File 14/1 | Balance of Payments. — 1977-1984 |
File 14/2 | Bank for International Settlements. — 1971-1981 |
File 14/3 | Berne Union (Suppliers' Credits). — 1966-1977 |
File 14/4 | Bilateralism. — 1965-1969 |
File 15/1 | Borrowing. — 1970-1980 |
File 15/2 | Borrowing. — 1981 |
File 15/3 | Buffer Stock. — 1983-1985 |
File 16/1 | Capital Controls/Movements. — 1970-1976 |
File 16/2 | Caribbean Aid Consortium. — 1977 |
File 16/3 | Caribbean Aid Consortium. — 1978 |
File 16/4 | Caribbean Aid Consortium - Correspondence. — 1979 |
File 16/5 | Caribbean Aid Consortium - Correspondence. — 1980-1981 |
File 17/1 | Caribbean Aid Consortium. — 1982-1984 |
File 17/2 | Coffee. — 1958-1971 |
File 17/3 | Commercial Banks - Relations with. — 1976-1977 |
File 17/4 | Commercial Banks - Relations with. — 1978-1985 |
File 18/1 | Commodity Prices, Staff Committee on Stabilization of. — 1967-1970 |
File 18/2 | Compensatory Financing - Export Shortfalls. — 1967-1975 |
File 18/3 | Compensatory Financing. — 1976-1977 |
File 18/4 | Compensatory Financing. — 1978-1979 |
File 18/5 | Compensatory Financing. — 1982-1984 |
File 19/1 | Compensatory Financing. — 1985-1987 |
File 19/2 | Conditionality. — 1985-1986 |
File 19/3 | Consultations - Acceptance of Obligations. — 1960-1965 |
File 19/4 | Consultations - Procedures and Reports. — 1959-1968 |
File 19/5 | Consultations - Article XIV and VIII Procedures. — 1965-1972 |
File 20/1 | Consultations - Article XIV and VIII Procedures. — 1973 |
File 20/2 | Consultations - Article XIV and VIII Procedures. — 1974-1979 |
File 20/3 | Consultation Procedures. — 1983 |
File 21/1 | Consultation Procedures. — 1984-1985 |
File 21/2 | Consultation Procedures. — 1986-1987 |
File 21/3 | Currencies for Drawings & Repurchases (inc. Currency Budget). — 1967-1971 |
File 21/4 | Currencies for Drawings & Repurchases (U.K. Repurchase). — 1972 |
File 22/1 | Currency Budget and Designation Plan. — 1973-1975 |
File 22/2 | Currency Budget and Designation Plan. — 1976 |
File 22/3 | Currency Budget and Designation Plan. — 1977 |
File 22/4 | Currency Budget and Designation Plan. — 1979 |
File 22/5 | Currency Budget and Designation Plan. — 1980 |
File 23/1 | Currency Budget and Designation Plan. — 1985 |
File 23/2 | Current Situation 1971 Realignment. — 1971-1972 |
File 23/3 | Current Situation U.S. Crisis. — 1971 |
File 23/4 | Current Situation U.S. Crisis. — 1971-1972 |
File 24/1 | Debt Renegotiation, IMF Role in (incl. Debt Study on Latin America). — 1964-1971 |
File 24/2 | Economic Crisis 1973. — 1972-1973 |
File 24/3 | Economic Crisis 1973. — 1973 |
File 24/4 | Energy Conference. — 1974 |
File 25/1 | Euro-Currency. — 1971-1974 |
File 25/2 | Euro-Currency. — 1974-1979 |
File 25/3 | Euro-Currency. — 1983 |
File 25/4 | Euro-Currency. — 1986 |
File 25/5 | European Monetary System. — 1978-1982 |
File 26/1 | Exchange Practices/Exchange Systems. — 1967-1975 |
File 26/2 | Exchange Rate Adjustment, Exchange Rate Flexibility. — 1968-1970 |
File 26/3 | Exchange Rate Adjustment. — 1970 |
File 26/4 | Exchange Rates/Exchange Rate Adjustment. — 1972-1975 |
File 27/1 | Exchange Rates/Exchange Rate Adjustment. — 1976 |
File 27/2 | Exchange Rates. — 1977 |
File 27/3 | Exchange Rate (Committee on Surveillance). — January 1978-March 1978 |
File 28/1 | Exchange Rate (Committee on Surveillance). — April 1978-December 1978 |
File 28/2 | Exchange Rate (Committee on Surveillance). — 1979 |
File 28/3 | Exchange Rates (Surveillance). — 1983 |
File 29/1 | Exchange Rates (Surveillance). — 1984 |
File 29/2 | Exchange Rates (Surveillance). — 1985 |
File 29/3 | [Exchange Rates] Surveillance. — 1978-1985 |
File 30/1 | Exchange Rates Surveillance. — 1986 |
File 30/2 | Extended Fund Facility. — 1973-1975 |
File 30/3 | Extended Fund Facility. — 1978-1982 |
File 31/1 | External Debt - Foreign Credit Limitations. — 1967-1979 |
File 31/2 | External Debt. — 1980-1982 |
File 31/3 | External Debt. — 1983 |
File 31/4 | External Debt. — 1984 |
File 32/1 | External Debt. — 1985 |
File 32/2 | External Debt. — 1986 |
File 32/3 | External Debt. — 1987 |
File 33/1 | External Debt. — January 1988 - June 1988 |
File 33/2 | External Debt. — July 1988 - December 1988 |
File 33/3 | External Debt/ Parallel Financing. — 1988-1989 |
File 33/4 | Floating. — 1971-1975 |
File 34/1 | Fund Operations/Fund Holdings. — 1972-1979 |
File 34/2 | General. — 1986-1988 |
File 34/3 | Gold. — 1964-1975 |
File 34/4 | Gold. — 1976-1980 |
File 34/5 | Government Finance Statistics. — 1972-1975 |
File 35/1 | Incomes Policy. — 1970-1971 |
File 35/2 | Inflation Study. — 1966-1971 |
File 35/3 | Inflation and Fiscal Deficits Measurement Study. — 1985-1986 |
File 35/4 | Interim Committee of the Board of Governors - Correspondence. — 1974-1977 |
File 35/5 | Interim Committee of the Board of Governors - Correspondence. — 1980-1985 |
File 35/6 | International Banking Statistics. — 1986-1987 |
File 35/7 | International Trade. — 1984-1985 |
File 35/8 | Investment of Fund Assets. — 1970-1975 |
File 36/1 | Latin American Economic Integration. — 1969 |
File 36/2 | Liquidity. — 1963-1970 |
File 36/3 | Liquidity (Reserves). — 1981-1983 |
File 36/4 | Liquidity (Reserves). — 1984-1985 |
File 37/1 | Liquidity. — 1985-1986 |
File 37/2 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — January 1974 |
File 37/3 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — February 1974-March 1974 |
File 37/4 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — April 1974-June 1974 |
File 38/1 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — July 1974-August 1974 |
File 38/2 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — September 1974-December 1974 |
File 38/3 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — January 1975-April 1975 |
File 38/4 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — May 1975-December 1975 |
File 39/1 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — 1976 |
File 39/2 | Oil Facility - Correspondence. — 1977-1983 |
File 39/3 | Overdue Payments - Correspondence. — 1981-1985 |
File 40/1 | Overdue Payments - Correspondence. — 1986 |
File 40/2 | Overdue Payments - Documents. — 1984-1986 |
File 40/3 | Overdue Payments. — 1987-1988 |
File 40/4 | Par Value/Central Rates. — 1966-1973 |
File 41/1 | Paris Club. — 1982-1985 |
File 41/2 | Paris Club. — 1987-1988 |
File 41/3 | Poverty. — 1987-1988 |
File 42/1 | Program Design and Performance Criteria. — 1986 |
File 42/2 | Quotas - Correspondence. — 1967-1977 |
File 42/3 | Quotas - Correspondence. — 1978-1980 |
File 42/4 | Quotas - Correspondence. — 1981-1986 |
File 42/5 | Reform of the Fund. — 1968-June 1972 |
File 43/1 | Reform of the Fund. — July 1972-December 1972 |
File 43/2 | Reform of the Fund. — 1973-1974 |
File 43/3 | Role of the IMF in Compensatory Financing of Commodity Fluctuations. — 1962-1963 |
File 43/4 | Social Expenditure Long Term Trends. — 1985 |
File 43/5 | Special Disbursement Account (SDA)/Structural Adjustment Facility (SAF). — 1985-1986 General note: See also "Structural Adjustment Facility" files in this series. |
File 44/1 | Special Disbursement Account (SDA)/Structural Adjustment Facility (SAF). — July 1986-December 1986 General note: See also "Structural Adjustment Facility" files in this series. |
File 44/2 | Special Drawing Account - Designation. — 1972-1975 General note: See also "Currency Budget and Designation Plan" files in this series. |
File 44/3 | Special Drawing Rights - General. — 1968-1971 |
File 44/4 | [Special Drawing Rights/Account] Procedures (Transactions/Requirement of Need/Gen. Procedures). — 1968-1972 |
File 44/5 | Special Drawing Rights - General. — 1973-1975 |
File 45/1 | [Special Drawing Rights] - Transactions and Requirement of Need (memos on countries). — 1970-1976 |
File 45/2 | [Special Drawing Rights] - General. — 1977-1978 |
File 45/3 | [Special Drawing Rights] - General. — 1979 |
File 45/4 | [Special Drawing Rights] - General. — 1983-1985 |
File 46/1 | [Special Drawing Rights] - General. — 1986-1987 |
File 46/2 | Special Visits/Special Consultations. — 1973-1975 |
File 46/3 | Special Visits/Special Consultations. — 1976-1978 |
File 46/4 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1961-1967 |
File 46/5 | Stand-By Arrangements. — November 1967-1968 |
File 47/1 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1969-1972 |
File 47/2 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1973-1977 |
File 47/3 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1978-1980 |
File 47/4 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1981 |
File 48/1 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1982-1983 |
File 48/2 | Stand-By Arrangements. — 1984-1985 |
File 48/3 | Sterling Balances (incl. UK and EEC). — 1968-1971 |
File 48/4 | Study on Privatization. — 1986 |
File 49/1 | Structural Adjustment Facility Correspondence. — 1987 General note: See also "Special Disbursement Account/Structural Adjustment Facility" file in this series. |
File 49/2 | Structural Adjustment Facility. — 1988 General note: See also "Special Disbursement Account/Structural Adjustment Facility" file in this series. |
File 49/3 | Supplementary Credit Arrangement. — 1977 |
File 50/1 | Supplementary Credit Arrangement. — 1978-1979 |
File 50/2 | Supplementary Financing (IBRD Scheme). — 1966-1967 |
File 50/3 | Theoretical Aspects of the Design of Fund-Supported Adjustment Prog. — 1986 |
File 50/4 | Trade - Voluntary Declaration. — 1974 |
File 50/5 | Trust Fund - Correspondence. — 1975-1977 |
File 51/1 | Trust Fund - Correspondence. — 1978-1979 |
File 51/2 | Use of Currencies of Members in Arrears. — 1986 |
File 51/3 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1973-1977 |
File 51/4 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1978 |
File 51/5 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1979 |
File 52/1 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1980 |
File 52/2 | Use of Fund Resources. — January 1981-June 1981 |
File 52/3 | Use of Fund Resources. — July 1981-December 1981 |
File 53/1 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1982 |
File 53/2 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1983 |
File 53/3 | Use of Fund Resources. — January 1984-June 1984 |
File 54/1 | Use of Fund Resources. — July 1984-December 1984 |
File 54/2 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1985 |
File 54/3 | Use of Fund Resources. — 1985-1987 |
File 55/1 | WHD Relations with Other Departments. — 1973-1979 Scope and content: File consists mostly of routine memos regarding consultations and facilities for non-WHD countries as well as some office memos dealing with inter-departmental communications. |
File 55/2 | WHD Relations with Other Departments. — 1980-1981 Scope and content: File consists mostly of routine memos regarding consultations and facilities for non-WHD countries as well as some office memos dealing with inter-departmental communications. |
File 55/3 | World Economic Outlook. — 1977 |
File 56/1 | World Economic Outlook - Correspondence. — 1978 |
File 56/2 | World Economic Outlook - Correspondence. — January 1979-March 1979 |
File 56/3 | World Economic Outlook - Correspondence. — April 1979-May 1979 |
File 57/1 | World Economic Outlook - Correspondence. — June 1979-December 1979 |
File 57/2 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — January 1980-June 1980 |
File 57/3 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — July 1980-December 1980 |
File 57/4 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — January 1981-December 1981 |
File 58/1 | World Economic Outlook Documents. — 1981 |
File 58/2 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — 1982 |
File 58/3 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — 1982-1985 |
File 58/4 | World Economic Outlook Documents. — 1982-1984 |
File 59/1 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — 1986 |
File 59/2 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — 1987 |
File 59/3 | World Economic Outlook Correspondence. — 1988 |
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