Register of the Catherine Caufield papers

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Title: Catherine Caufield papers

Date (inclusive): 1932-1996

Collection Number: 2002C19

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 16 manuscript boxes (6.7 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, studies, and printed matter related to the World Bank and its effect on the economies of developing countries. Used as research material for the book by C. Caufield, Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations (New York, 1996).

Creator: Caufield, Catherine

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2002.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Catherine Caufield papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Biographical Note

1981	Author, The Man Who Ate Bluebottles: And Other Great British Eccentrics
1984	Author, In the Rainforest: Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World
1989	Author, Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age
1996	Author, Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations

Scope and Content of Collection

The Catherine Caufield papers contain correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, studies, and printed matter related to the World Bank and its effect on the economies of developing countries.

Catherine Caufield was a British author and journalist who served as an environmental correspondent for New Scientist. The collection consists of Caufield's research files for Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations, a book which was critical of the World Bank. In addition to printed matter, correspondence, and Caufield's notes, the collection includes internal World Bank documents, such as memoranda and reports.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Economic assistance

Developing countries

World Bank

box 1, folder 1-3

Africa 1985-1994

box 1, folder 4

Agriculture 1994

box 1, folder 5

Alternatives 1991-1996

box 1, folder 6

Appraisal and design 1991-1995

box 1, folder 7

Asia 1992-1994

box 1, folder 8

Asian tigers 1979-1994

box 1, folder 9

Bangladesh 1992-1993

box 2, folder 1

Bangladesh (cont'd.) 1992-1993

box 2, folder 2

Board 1989-1996

box 2, folder 3

Brazil 1989-1995

box 2, folder 4

[Brazil and Guatamala] 1985-1993

box 2, folder 5

Bureaucracy and management 1987-1995

box 2, folder 6

Capital flight 1983-1995

box 2, folder 7

Columbia 1972-1992

box 3, folder 1

Columbia, (cont'd.) 1972-1992

box 3, folder 2

Consultants 1977-1994

box 3, folder 3

[Conable] and environment 1992-1995

box 3, folder 4

Corruption and oversight 1992-1995

box 3, folder 5

Cost-benefit and environmental accouting 1991-1994

box 3, folder 6

Dams 1989-1996

box 3, folder 7

Debt (1990s) 1992-1995

box 4, folder 1-3

Debt crisis 1974-1994

box 4, folder 4

Development Theory 1945-1990

box 4, folder 5

Disbursement and procurement 1991-1996

box 4, folder 6

[Eastern Europe] 1993, undated

box 4, folder 7

Education 1994-1995

box 5, folder 1

[Electric] projects 1958-1971

box 5, folder 2

Energy 1993-1994

box 5, folder 3

Environment 1990-1996, undated

box 5, folder 4-5

Evaluation 1976-1994

box 5, folder 6-7

False appraisals 1988-1993

box 6, folder 1

Fiftieth anniversary 1992-1995

box 6, folder 2

Financial conditions and credit worthiness 1962-1971, undated

box 6, folder 3

Forestry 1991, undated

box 6, folder 4-5

Foreign bonds 1932, 1988

box 6, folder 6-7

Free trade 1986-1995

box 7, folder 1

Fundraising 1988-1995

box 7, folder 2

Global Environment Facility (GEF) 1991-1995

box 7, folder 3-4

Governance, 1991-1995

box 7, folder 5-6

Green Revolution and [nutrition] 1983-1993

box 8, folder 1

Gross National Product and indices 1991-1995

box 8, folder 2

Guinea forestry 1993

box 8, folder 3

Health and nutrition 1990-1995

box 8, folder 4

Indebtedness of [borrowers], quality of Bank's loan portfolio 1987-1995

box 8, folder 5

India, structural adjustment loans 1985-1995

box 8, folder 6

Indigenous 1986-1993

box 8, folder 7-8

Irrigation 1984-1993

box 8, folder 9

Karjan 1987-1994

box 9, folder 1

Latin America 1990-1994

box 9, folder 2

Lending statistics 1949-1993

box 9, folder 3

[McN] projects 1978-1994

box 9, folder 4-6

Mexico 1987-1996

box 9, folder 7

Missions and consultants 1986-1993

box 9, folder 8

Narmada 1992-1996

box 10, folder 1-2

Narmada (cont'd.) 1992-1996

box 10, folder 3

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public participation 1987-1994

box 10, folder 4

Political influence 1981-1994

box 10, folder 5-6

Ponzi, pressure to lend 1982-1996

box 11, folder 1-2

Population 1981-1995

box 11, folder 3

Preston, Lewis 1991-1996

box 11, folder 4

Private enterprise 1989-1996

Projects

box 11, folder 5

1980s projects 1985-1994

box 11, folder 6

Good projects, alternatives 1991-1996

box 11, folder 7

Recent projects 1993-1995

box 12, folder 1

Public relations 1993-1995

box 12, folder 2

Resettlement 1988-1994

box 12, folder 3

Revolving door, undue influence 1991-1993, undated

box 12, folder 4

Secrecy 1993-1996

box 12, folder 5-7

Singrauli 1979-1994

box 13, folder 1

Slums, Dharavi 1987-1994

box 13, folder 2

Social 1992-1995

box 13, folder 3

Staff undated

box 13, folder 4-5

State enterprises 1981-1995

box 13, folder 6

Structural adjustment loans, prehistory 1971-1995

box 13, folder 7

Technocrats 1950-1962, undated

box 13, folder 8

Trends undated

box 13, folder 9

Turkey 1994

box 14, folder 1

Upper Indravati 1992-1993

box 14, folder 2-3

Urban 1985-1993

box 14, folder 4

Wapenhans 1992-1994

box 14, folder 5

Water supply 1985-1994

box 14, folder 6

Women 1993-1995

box 14, folder 7

Women and adjustment 1991, undated

box 14, folder 8

Woods, George 1968-1994

World Bank

box 15, folder 1-6

Annual reports and loans 1949-1994

Scope and Contents

Includes reports detailing loan amounts

box 16, folder 1

Annual reports and loans (cont'd.) 1949-1994

box 16, folder 2

Research 1991-1995

box 16, folder 3

Soundness 1989-1996

box 16, folder 4-5

Special legal status (bossy bank) 1979-1995

box 16, folder 6

Volta Dam 1961-1990

box 16, folder 7

Yacyretá 1991-1995

box 16, folder 8

Yanhee 1957-1995