EUR Divisions Country/Country Desk Files

91855

1947-1993

series

textual records

54 linear feet of textual records

English

Technical assistance, External debt, Exchange control policy, Central banks, Public finance, Production, Resident Representatives, Australia, Belgium, Belize, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Republic of, Portugal, Zimbabwe, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia

Series is open according to the Archives Access Policy. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restrictions. Closed files and items for this series are in box 97.

Series primarily consists of records generated by desk economists when monitoring and assessing developments in their desk country. Topics of note include: resident representatives; technical assistance; external debts, credits and grants; exchange controls and regulations; central banks; government finance; and production (i.e. important industries in the desk country, such as textiles, for example). There are also records that reflect the desk economist's role in maintaining contacts with counterparts in functional departments, IBRD (later World Bank), and other organizations. Records include: IMF and other reports, correspondence, memoranda, cables, tables, newspaper clippings and other excerpts from publications. Series is arranged alphabetically by country and then according to a numeric classification scheme which was common to all country desks, followed alphabetically by unnumbered files.