Sources for WBG History Guide

United Nations (UN)

Websites

• United Nations History Site
• United Nations Research Guide about World Bank Group
• United Nations-World Bank Partnership in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations
• World Bank site about United Nations

Books & Articles

• Bleicher, Samuel A. "UN v. IBRD: a dilemma of functionalism." International Organization 24, no. 1 (1970): 31-47.
• Harris, Shani; Morrison, Mary. 2015. Working with the United Nations in fragile and conflict-affected situations : a resource note for the World Bank staff. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
• Jolly, Richard. "The UN and the World Bank: Time for Closer Relations." FUNDS Briefing 13 (2013).
• Perinbam, Lewis. "The World Bank and the United Nations." Finance and Development 3, no. 4 (1966): 290.
• United Nations and World Bank Group. 2021. United Nations – World Bank Partnership in Crisis-Affected Situations : 2020 UN-WB Partnership Monitoring Report. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
• World Bank Group. Board of Governor’s Resolutions concerning the UN or UN agencies

Countries & the World Bank Group

China

Baeumler, Axel E. N., Ebbe, Katrinka, and Licciardi, Guido. 2011. Conserving the past as a foundation for the future : China-World Bank partnership on cultural heritage conservation. Urban development series knowledge papers; no. 12 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.

Pachetti, Federico. "A Merger of Equals: the Political Economy of the World Bank's Early Contacts with China." Journal of Global History 1-20 (2023).

Germany

Bruns, Wilhelm, The relationship of the GDR to the World Bank Group

India

Kirk, Jason A.  2010.  India and the World Bank : the politics of aid and influence.  London: New York :  Anthem Press,

Indonesia

Edwards, D. Brent, Jr. irk, Jason A.  2023. Rethinking World Bank Influence: Governance Reforms and the Ritual Aid Dance in Indonesia.  Routledge Research on Asian Development. 

Tanzania

Payer, Cheryl. 1980. Tanzania and the World Bank. Trenton, NJ: Africa Research and Publications Project.

Uganda

Lanning, Greg and Peter Chappell. 1998. Our friends at the bank, First Run/Icarus Films. Filmed over 14 months, it documents the negotiations between the World Bank and Uganda.

United States

Related sites:

• USAID History site
• US Federal Reserve: History and Centennial sites

Books/Articles

• Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck, Henrik Hansen and Thomas Markussen. 2006. US politics and World Bank IDA-lending, The Journal of Development Studies, 42:5, 772-794, DOI: 10.1080/00220380600741946
• Clark, R. and Dolan, L.R. (2020), Pleasing the Principal: U.S. Influence in World Bank Policymaking. American Journal of Political Science, 65: 36-51.
• Fleck, Robert K., and Christopher Kilby. 2006. “World Bank Independence: A Model and Statistical Analysis of U.S. Influence.” Review of Development Economics 10(2): 224–40.
• Gwin, Catherine. 1994. U.S. relations with the World Bank, 1945-1992. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution
• Lavelle, Kathryn C.  2011.  Legislating international organization : the US Congress, the IMF, and the World Bank.  New York :  Oxford University Press

• Lavelle, Kathryn C.  2011. American politics, the presidency of the World Bank, and development policy. Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 6377. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. 

• Malik, Rabia and Randall W. Stone. 2018. "Corporate Influence in World Bank Lending." Journal of Politics 80(1): 103-18.

Related History Websites

• African Development Bank history site
• Asian Development Bank history site
• European Association for Banking and Financial History
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development history site
• Inter American Development Bank: History; and Historical milestones sites.

Books & Articles

• Bank of International Settlements. Archives sections: 1.26d Relations with International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington 1946; 1.26d(1) Annual Meetings of IMF, IBRD and IFC 1948-;  7.16(2) BIS Foundation and Activities Documents including Bretton Woods Conference, 1929-49; 7.19(7) Cooperation BIS-IBRD 1946-52;
• Castellarin, Emanuel. "World Bank Group (IBRD), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)." In Research Handbook on the European Union and International Organizations. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
• Foch, Arthur. Explaining the G7 and G10's influence on World Bank decisions: The role of formal and informal rules of governance
• Fox, Jonathan A. and Brown, L. David. 1998. The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and Grassroots Movements
• Oxfam. Correspondence of the Director and his staff with other organizations, and related papers, World Bank NGO Committee-World Council of Churches, Jun 1956-Dec 1988. (Held at Bodleian)

CRITIQUES

• Benjamin, Bret. 2007. Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
• Caufield, Catherine. 1997. Masters of Illusion: the World Bank and the Poverty of Nations. Henry Holt & Co.
• Danaher, Kevin. 1994. 50 years is enough: the case against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Boston, Mass: South End Press.
• Evans, Jessica. 2015. At your own risk: reprisals against critics of World Bank Group projects. New York, N.Y. : Human Rights Watch.
• Films on Demand. 2005. Reforming the World Bank. Hamilton, NJ: Films Media Group [distributor].
• Gladstein, Alex. Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development. Bitcoin Magazine Books.
• Griffiths, Peter. 2015. The Economist's Tale: a Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank.
• January, Brendan. 2007. Globalize it!: the stories of the IMF, the World Bank, the WYO - and those who protest. Minneapolis, Minn: Lerner.
• Konkel, R. 2014. “The monetization of global poverty: The concept of poverty in world bank history,” 1944-90. Journal of Global History, 9(2), 276-300.
• Moore, Frederick T. 1958. The Failures of the World Bank missions. Santa Monica: Reproduced by Rand. 
• Payer, Cheryl. 1982. The World Bank: a critical analysis. New York: Monthly Review Press.
• Peet, Richard. 2009. Unholy trinity: the IMF, World Bank and WTO. London: Zed Books.
• Pincus, Jonathan, and Jeffrey A. Winters. 2002. Reinventing the World Bank. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Price, David. 1989. Before the bulldozer : the Nambiquara Indians and the World Bank. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press.
• Rolfe, Rebecca Eve and Henry Veltmeyer. 2008. On the World Bank as an agent of economic imperialism
• Shaman, David. 2011. The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the revolutionary struggle for transparency
• United States Government Accountability Office. 2024. World Bank Procurement: Risk Monitoring Can be Enhanced as U.S. Businesses Face Challenges Competing. GAO-24-106718. Washington D.C.: GAO.
• Walden, Shelley and Beatrice Edwards. 2009. Racial Discrimination at the World Bank: A review of the treatment of black employees in recruitment, retention and justice decisions. Washington D.C.: Government Accountability Project.
• Yi Chong Xu and Patrick Weller. 2009.  Inside the World Bank: exploding the myth of the monolithic bank. Palgrave Macmillan.

CRITICS' PERSONAL PAPERS

• Caufield, Catherine. Register of the Catherine Caufield papers, 1932-1996. (Held at Stanford, Hoover Archives)
• George, Susan. Susan George Library Collection, 1948-2011 (Held at International Institute of Social History)

• Bänziger, Hugo. (Bretton Woods) Interview with Barry Eichengreen. Finance & History Podcast audio. August 12, 2021.
• Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast – Episode 16. Defining and Measuring Poverty. August 8, 2019.
• History of the Cold War - Episode 38 - World Bank and International Monetary Fund . Nov 30, 2017.
• The Vegan Vangard - Episode 35. Economic Refugees and the IMF/World Bank with Greg from In The Roots . May 30, 2019.