Identity area

Reference code

WB IBRD/IDA CLARK-5452S

Title

Memoranda, notes, and press articles

Date(s)

  • 1966 - 1985, (predominant 1966 -1980) (Creation)

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Extent and medium

0.47 linear feet of textual records

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Name of creator

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Scope and content

This series contains various record types: draft memos; correspondence (e.g., from Clark to World Bank President George D. Woods; from Lars J. Lind to Clark); drafts of speeches; press articles; notes on meetings and conversations (e.g., Clark?s notes on his conversation with Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr on January 18, 1977; Clark?s notes on McNamara?s conversation with Willy Brandt on March 7, 1979); drafts of professional memoir; a survey on major international conferences and resolutions on development issues in the 1970s; a press release about the ?Delhi Announcement on Brandt Commission;? a copy of Willy Brandt?s opening address on December 9, 1977; and many more. Records in this series cover a broad range of topics, including Clark?s travel schedule between 1968 and 1980; Clark?s thoughts on the type of job he wanted to do at the World Bank Group (e.g., to be involved in discussions about the future of the Indian Consortium); Clark?s notes on World Bank policies; relations with the United Nations; development issues; public support strategies for the Bank Group; the Pearson and Brandt Commissions that studied development issues during the McNamara years; Clark's and McNamara's appointment to the World Bank; and the development of Clark's memoirs.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Records in this series are roughly arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically.

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Conditions governing access

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

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright and literary property rights held by Nicolas, Lord Hemingford.

Language of material

  • English

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    Rules and/or conventions used

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

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    13 October 2022

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