1.41 linear feet of textual records

The sub-series contains the working files for special studies generated by the Country Policy, Industry and Finance Division (OEDD2) and its predecessor, the Policy-Based Lending, Industry, Public Utilities and Urban Sectors Division. The studies cover a range of policies, themes, sectors, and countries, including: conditionality in World Bank financed loans; privatization; women in development; free-standing technical assistance for institutional development in Sub-Saharan Africa; trade policy reforms under adjustment programs; a study of Bank/country relations covering Mexico's agriculture, industry, infrastructure, urban, and electrical and power sectors; and the 1992 study The World Bank and Pacific Island Countries: An OED Review which covered the Bank's operations in six Pacific Island member countries: Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Western Samoa. There is also a draft of the design paper for the FY95 country assistance review for Nigeria.

Also included are files documenting OEDD2's participation in a Bank-wide steering group on Development Aid Effectiveness and a file for the development of a policy ledger of OED recommendations, management responses, and actions for all studies discussed by the Joint Audit Committee (JAC) after July 1, 1992.

Accruals are not expected.

Original file arrangement has been maintained. Files are arranged by study subject or title.

Records are subject to the Internal Evaluation Group's Access to Information Policy.

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

• English

• Records from projects that originated in OEDD2 were transferred to the Country Evaluations and Regional Relations Division (OEDCR); see Records of the Operations Evaluation Department -- Special Evaluation Studies -- Country Evaluations and Regional Relations Division (OEDCR) special evaluation studies working files (WB IBRD/IDA OPE 09-06). It is likely that records generated by OEDD2 found in this sub-series were transferred to the OEDCR along with Department employees during the Department's structural reorganization in 1997.

Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).

19 June 2009, 15 October 2010, 4 April 2012