Special Advisor Arjun K. Sengupta Special Subjects Files

585387

1988-1990

series

3 linear feet of textual records

Overdue obligations, Debt reduction, Poverty; Debt relief

Arjun K. Sengupta, Parthasarathi Shome

Series is open according to the Archives Access Policy. Files will be screened by reference staff for time restrictions and sensitive material has been removed.

Series contains Special Advisor general files on Fund's management of the debt situation (Cf. Board Documents, Debt); general poverty issues (Poverty - General File); Fund supported programs for countries with overdue financial obligations (Cf. Fund Facilities) and the new Fund Intensified Collaborative Approach endorsed by the Interim Committee in September 1988 to assist countries in arrears to the IMF and the World Bank (Cf. G 24; Interim Committee and Development Committee; World Bank / Fund, Debt Strategy). Material consists of memoranda addressed by Sengupta to the Managing Director ( includes briefings for statements, luncheons and meetings), speeches (Cf. The LDC Debt Problem ; G-24); memoranda exchanged with Heads of Departments (Cf. Debt; Poverty); memoranda to files (visits, meetings with delegations, some drafted by Senior Economist Partho Shome); and, mostly, Board Documents and departmental memoranda with some handwritten notes and annotations by Sengupta and Shome,