EURAI Subject Files

25649

1953-1993

series

textual records

182 linear feet of textual records.

English

Missions, Gold holdings of Fund, IMF Institute courses, Commercial banks, World Economic Outlook, Centrally planned economies, Commodity prices, Monetary policy, Use of Fund resources, IBRD, OECD, GATT, SDR assessment, Oil Facility, Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility, Balance of payments, Supplementary Financing Facility, Annual Meetings agendas, Annual Meetings formal notice, Conditionality, Canada, Japan

Series is open according to the Archives Access Policy. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restrictions.

Series consists of subject files containing correspondence, cables, telexes, and internal memoranda. Additionally, there are IMF Board papers, staff studies, and papers by summer interns and scholars on a variety of economic subjects, general in nature or specific to the IMF's core work. Also "Memorandum for Files" register staff's thoughts, conversations, and meetings., Addressees include the Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director; EUR Director, Advisors, and Division Chiefs; other area and functional departments as well as the offices in Europe; and government officials and institutions. Material is organized alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each file and covers Department's activities on the following fronts:, (1) Administration and Operations (department heads meetings, mission schedules, work program, access limits, Annual Meetings, arrears, Article IV, VIII, and XIV consultations and procedures, forecasting; Fund's conditionality, financial position, holdings of gold, liquidity, and relations with commercial banks; IMF Institute, operational budget and designation plan, par value, performance criteria, surveillance, technical assistance, and World Economic Outlook)., (2) Country information and IMF Lending (balance of payments, exchange rates arrangements, membership, quotas, purchases & currency budget, use of Fund resources, Stand-By Arrangements, and operation & review of Facilities: Compensatory Financing Facility (CFF), Extended Fund Facility, Oil Facility, Special Drawings Rights (SDRs), Supplementary Financing Facility (SFF), and Success Stories of Fund Programs)., (3) General economic subjects (centrally planned economies/eastern European economies, commodity prices, European Currency Unit and monetary system, reform of the international monetary system, external debt, inflation, monetary theory and policy, and poverty)., (4) Fund involvement with international groups and organizations (Bank of International Settlement (BIS), Berne Union, European Economic Community (EEC), General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Group of Five (G-5)/ G-7/G-24/G-77/G-30, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Paris Club, and United Nations (UN)., The files also contain country notes and briefs, minutes of meetings, Aide-Memoires, and Back-to-Office reports; copies of articles and journals, press releases, and newspaper clippings; Department's collaboration on managing directors draft speeches, acknowledgments for invitations to provide presentations at conferences and seminars; correspondence related to security of information, and information on visits of country officials., Additionally there are comments, usually in the form of Office Memoranda, on draft papers prepared by EUR or in collaboration with other departments. A significant amount of these papers became Board Documents and refer to Fund programs, policies, procedures, and issues of interest to IMF country members., Throughout the records there are papers on a wide range of economic issues. Illustrative topics include: stagflation, wage indexation, western capitalism, and economic depression.