Access & Restrictions

Detailed information regarding access and any restrictions is available in the Access and Restrictions section for each individual transcript.

Under the provisions of the World Bank Policy on Access to Information, transcripts are eligible for disclosure review 20 years after the date of issue. If you would like to initiate disclosure review of a transcript, please complete and submit the Access to Information Request Form. The transcript will be reviewed for any information that may fall under exceptions outlined in the World Bank Policy on Access to Information. If the transcript is approved for declassification it will be published on the World Bank Group Archives’ website.

Some transcripts are not available for research at this time due to restrictions placed by interviewees in the release agreements for these transcripts. For these cases, access will have to be decided on a case-by-case basis.

If copies of the transcript are not permitted, the original transcript is only available for research in the Archives Reading Room in Washington, D.C. or from the institution that holds the copy right.