Joint Study on the Soviet Economy

169225

1990-1991

series

3.5 linear feet of textual records

Leslie Alan Whittome, Teresa M. Ter-Minassian, World Bank, OECD, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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.

Files maintained by Alan Whittome when he was appointed as Personal Representative (PR) to the Managing Director for a study of the Soviet economy commissioned from the IMF, the IBRD, the OECD and the EBRD by the participants in the G-7 economic summit of Houston (11 July 1990). Records contain outgoing and some incoming correspondence exchanged with between Whittome and the other commissioned organizations (includes correspondence with PRs Thalvitz, Zecchini and Flemming), copies of his memoranda and handwritten notes to the Managing Director, to Head of the IMFTask Force Teresa Ter-Menessian and other IMF staff, minutes of meetings and drafts of the Summary Report. Material is organized according to his Secretariat's filing plan. Series contains also a set of chronological files (July 1990 - March 1991), a diary (1990) and printed material including the filnal report (The Economy of the USSR, a study undertaken in response to a request by the Houston Summit. IMF, IBRD, OECD, EBRD, 1990)