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- 1978 - 1987 (Creation)
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4.99 linear feet of textual records
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Archival history
Most records in this series were transferred by the Office of the Senior Vice President, Operations (SVPOP) in accordance with approved records retention and disposition schedules. Another set of records were given by SVPOP to the Bank historian, Office of the Historian likely in support of the Bank History Project in collaboration with the Brookings Institution. These records were later transferred by the Office of the Historian and accessioned into the Archives custody in 1997.
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Scope and content
The series contains internal memoranda to the World Bank Group president, regional vice presidents and other senior managers, executive directors, and Operations division chiefs for the period in which Stern was vice president and senior vice president, Operations.
Issues covered relate to: the formulation and review of regional and country assistance strategies and lending programs and of structural adjustment loans and selected individual projects; operational policy and procedure; World Bank-International Monetary Fund collaboration; budgeting; and analyses of initiatives, such as the China program, the Brandt Commission, energy development, and International Development Association (IDA) replenishments.
While Stern served as Senior Vice President from 1980 to May 1987, there is a gap in the chronological records for 1987; the series contains only seven items dating from 1987.
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Arranged chronologically by year and month.
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Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.
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Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.
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Records of the Senior Vice President of Operations (WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_106).
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Individual Staff Members - Ernest Stern files - Correspondence with World Bank President (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-10-10) as well as Records of Individual Staff Members - Ernest Stern files - Correspondence with Executive Directors (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-10-11).
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Records of the Operations (Loan) Committee (WB IBRD/IDA LC).
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Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).
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Dates of creation revision deletion
6 November 2019