Sources for WBG History Guide

• Alacevich, Michele. 2009. The political economy of the World Bank: the early years.

• Ayres, Robert. 1983. Banking On The Poor : the World Bank And World Poverty. London, MIT Press.

• Berkman, Steve. 2008. The World Bank and the Gods of Lending. Lynne Rienner Publishers.

• Easterly, William. 2007. The White Man’s Burden. Penguin

• Folwell, Thomas Harold. 1963. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; some historical aspects .... Thesis/Dissertation.

• Lateef, K. Sarwar. 1994. The evolving role of the World Bank : the first half century - an overview. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. 

• Marshall, Katherine. 2009. The World Bank: from reconstruction to development to equity. London: Routledge.

• Mayer, Otto. 1984. Development without miracles: The World Bank after forty years Intereconomics Vol. 19. Hamburg: Verlag Weltarchiv

• Morris, Jan. 1963. The road to Huddersfield: a journey to five continents. New York, Pantheon Books.

• Oliver, Robert W. 1971. Early Plans for a World Bank. Princeton Studies on International Finance no. 29. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press

• Oliver, Robert W. 1996. International economic co-operation and the World Bank. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

• Petersmann, H.G. 1983. "The Operations of the World Bank and the Evolution of Its Institutional Functions since Bretton Woods (1944-84)," German Yearbook of International Law 26: 7-53

• Simha, S. L. N. 1996. Fifty Years of Bretton Woods Twins: IMF and World Bank. Chennai, India: Institute for Financial Management and Research.

• Tenney, Sarah, and Anne C. M. Salda. 2014. Historical dictionary of the World Bank. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

• Toussaint, Eric, Camille Bruneau, and Gilbert Achcar. 2023. The World Bank : A Critical History. London: Pluto Press.

• United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. 1954. An organizational survey of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Office

Agriculture and Rural Development

• Learning from World Bank history : agriculture and food-based approaches for addressing malnutrition. Agriculture and environmental services discussion paper; no. 10. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Plusquellec, Hervé.2024. A Retrospective of Lending for Irrigation - Reflections on 70 Years of Bank Experience. Discussion Paper Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.

• World Bank Experience with Rural Development : 1965-1986. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. 

Legal and Treaties

• Shihata, Ibrahim. 2001. The World Bank Legal Papers. The Hague: Kluwer Law International. 

• The IDA deputies : an historical perspective. IDA13. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

Social Development

• Davis, Gloria. 2004. A history of the social development network in The World Bank, 1973 - 2003. Social Protection discussion paper series ; no. 56 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

Transportation

• Salman, Salman M. A. 2009. The World Bank policy for projects on international waterways : an historical and legal analysis. Law, justice, and development series Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

Other 

• World Bank Group joint projects : a review of two decades of experience - lessons and implications from evaluation. IEG learning product Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. Independent Evaluation Group.

• World Bank policy research: a historical overview. 2009. Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5000. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Yusuf, Shahid; Deaton, Angus; Dervis, Kemal; Easterly, William; Ito, Takatoshi; Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2008. Development economics through the decades : a critical look at 30 years of the World Development Report. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

• Weiss, C. 2006. Science and technology at the world bank, 1968-83. History and Technology, 22(1), 81-104.

Africa

• Amoako, K.Y. 2020. Know the Beginning Well : An Inside Journey through Five Decades of African Development. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.

• Barratt Brown, Michael. 2019. Africa's choices: after thirty years of the World Bank

• Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; Molini, Vasco. 2019. The Devil is in the Detail : Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Africa in the Last Two Decades. (Also in the Journal of African Economies. -- Vol 28, No. 4 (August 2019)).

• Gibbon, Peter. 1992. The World Bank and African Poverty, 1973-91. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 30(2):193-220, June, 1992.

• World Bank. 2013. A photographic journey: 50 years of partnership between the World Bank and the government of Uganda, 1963-2013. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

• World Bank. The World Bank and Senegal : 1960-87 . Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• World Bank. The World Bank Group in Africa. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

East Asia / Pacific

• De Silva, Asita; Peters, R. Kyle; Tidrick, Gene; Hope, Nicholas; Danilova, Danuta; Joshi, Janice.2005 Evaluation of World Bank assistance to Pacific member countries 1992-2002. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
• World Bank. Vietnam and the World Bank : a strong and enduring partnership - a brief annotated history. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• World Bank. World Bank Timeline for Indonesia. World Bank Group Archives

Europe / Central Asia

• Assetto, Valerie J. 1988. The Soviet bloc in the IMF and the IBRD. Boulder : Westview Press

• World Bank. World Bank Timeline on Europe 1945-1960. World Bank Group Archives

Latin America

• Coelho, Jaime Cesar. 2012. Economia, Poder e Influência Externa: O Banco Mundial e Os Anos De Ajuste Na América Latina. 1a̲ edição

• Urzúa, Carlos M. 2000. Medio siglo de relaciones entre el Banco Mundial y México: una reseña desde el trópico. El Colegio de México.

South Asia

• Guhan, Sanjivi. 1995. The World Bank's Lending in South Asia. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.

• World Bank. 1986. World Bank in Pakistan: review of a relationship 1960-1984. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Bekov, Kh. A.; Skobeyev, K. M.; Zargarov, V. A.; and Koreshkov, V. M. 2004. Russian civil service reform (History of reform attempts from 1992 to 2000). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Lin, Justin Yifu; Fardoust, Shahrokh; Rosenblatt, David.2012. Reform of the international monetary system : a jagged history and uncertain prospects. Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6070. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Meier, Gerald M.; Seers, Dudley. 1984. Pioneers in development. London: Oxford University Press.

• Thompson, Louis S. 2000. Regulatory developments in the U.S. : history and philosophy. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Weeks, Sheldon. 2002. Pre-vocational secondary education in Botswana: an historical and comparative perspective - 1966 to 2002 . Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

• Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) for World Bank Group