Special Collections and University Archives
403 Parks Library | 701 Morrill Road
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2102
RS 13/9/5
Iowa State University
Center for International Agricultural Finance
Records, 1990-2003
Descriptive summary
| creator: | Iowa State University. Center for International Agricultural Finance |
| title: | Iowa State University. Center for International Agricultural Finance records |
| dates: | 1990-2003, undated |
| extent: | 9.52 linear feet (6 records center cartons and 1 document box) |
| collection number: | RS 13/9/5 |
| repository: | University Archives, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. |
| language: | English |
Administrative information
| access: | Open for research.
This collection is stored offsite. Please contact the Special Collections Department at least two working days in advance. |
| publication rights: | Consult Special Collections and University Archives |
| preferred citation: | Iowa State University Center for International Agricultural Finance records, RS 13/9/5, Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. |
Access points
| people, families, and corporate bodies: | Iowa State University. Center for International Agricultural Finance |
| places: | Former communist countries -- Economic conditions |
| subjects: | Agriculture -- Finance -- Study and teaching |
| genres: | Instructional materials |
Abstract
The Center for International Agricultural Finance (CIAF) was founded at Iowa State University in 1990 with the purpose of helping former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries develop a modern financial system and establish legal banking systems appropriate for the global economy. The initiative was led by Neil E. Harl, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Iowa State, who served as the Center’s first director. This collection contains information regarding the agricultural finance schools and programs sponsored by CIAF, including course materials, schedules, lists of participants, financial statements, photographs, correspondence, and cultural background information about individual participating countries. |
Historical note
Iowa State University proposed the Center for International Agricultural Finance (CIAF) after a group of U.S. professionals visited Poland in 1990 and discovered a need for expertise in the development of modern financial systems in the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. Neil E. Harl, Distinguished Professor of Economics and a member of the delegation to Europe, proposed that the annual Banking and Credit School offered by the University and usually reserved for Iowa bankers be opened up to delegates from Eastern European countries. Further discussion between Harl and members of the University faculty and administration settled on a new program specifically designed for people from the former Soviet Union. The first School of Agricultural Banking, Credit, and Finance was organized and held in July of 1990 at Iowa State University. The three-week course included delegates from the countries of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia. Following from the success of the first school, the Iowa Board of Regents approved CIAF in December of 1990 with the purpose of helping former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries develop a modern financial system and establish legal banking systems appropriate for the global economy. Neil E. Harl became Director (1990-2004). In May of 1991, 17 participants from the Soviet Union were enrolled in the banking school held at Iowa State University. The coursework, which was translated into Russian, covered issues of finance, bank management, loans, commercial law, private property, bankruptcy, international trade, farm management, and basic economic topics. The first school held abroad was in Riga, Latvia, in October 1991. During the next decade, CIAF was involved in helping educate financial leaders in such countries as Estonia, Lithuania, Albania, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia, with the ultimate goal being to encourage the establishment of stable banking systems. The center expanded its outreach to include the countries of Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Hungary, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, South Africa, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Vietnam. |
Collection description
This collection (1990-2003, undated) contains information from the Center for International Agricultural Finance regarding the schools and other educational programs it sponsored. The records include course materials, schedules, lists of participants, financial statements, photographs, correspondence, historical information, and cultural background information about particular countries served. The files span the years when Neil E. Harl served as director and document many of his contributions to the program and his work with Eastern European countries. |
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Organization
This collection is organized chronologically. |
Container list
Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
1 |
1 |
Historical information and video list |
1990 |
1 |
2 |
Agricultural Law Conference meeting minutes |
1990-1992 |
1 |
3 |
Moscow Conference |
1990 |
1 |
4 |
Perestroika, Soviet Union |
1990 |
1 |
5 |
Poland correspondence |
1990 |
1 |
6 |
Poland project notes |
1990 |
1 |
7 |
Poland seminar speech with transparencies |
1990 |
1 |
8 |
Poland visit |
1990 |
1 |
9 |
Publication: “Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union” by Neil Harl |
1990 |
1 |
10 |
Report on the mission to Poland |
1990 |
1 |
11 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Eastern Europeans |
1990 |
1 |
12 |
USDA - Poland mission |
1990 |
7 |
11 |
Pamphlets for Banking Schools |
1990-1995 |
1 |
13 |
1st Baltic School |
1991 |
1 |
14 |
Bucharest School of Banking and Credit Financing |
1991 |
1 |
15 |
Farmer to Farmer USSR Vitaes |
1991 |
1 |
16 |
International Scientific and Practical Conference program |
1991 |
1 |
17 |
Moscow Conference papers |
1991 |
1 |
18 |
Moscow Conference (2 b/w and 2 color photographs) |
1991 |
1 |
19 |
Participants of International Law Conference |
1991 |
1 |
20 |
Publication “General Equilibrium Model of Agricultural Trade: An Intertemporal Optimizing Approach with Implication for Tariffication” by Walter Enders |
1991 |
1 |
21-22 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Central and Eastern Europeans (2 b/w photographs) |
1991 |
1 |
23 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Latvia (2 b/w photographs) |
1991 |
1 |
24 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Soviets |
1991 |
1 |
25 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance financial reports |
1991 |
1 |
26 |
USSR trip |
1991 |
1 |
27 |
USSR/Romania trip |
1991 |
7 |
10 |
Credit schools: booklets |
1991-1995 |
1 |
28 |
Albania School |
1992 |
1 |
29 |
Baltics Banking School (1 b/w and 4 color photographs) |
1992 |
2 |
1 |
Czech papers |
1992 |
2 |
2 |
Czech project |
1992 |
2 |
3 |
Czech training |
1992 |
2 |
4 |
Czechoslovakia Banking School (41 color photographs) |
1992 |
2 |
5 |
Czechoslovakia trip |
1992 |
2 |
6 |
International Agricultural Law Conference |
1992 |
2 |
7 |
International Agricultural Law Conference scientific papers |
1992 |
2 |
8 |
Media relations/interpreters |
1992 |
2 |
9 |
Photographs and Logos (4 b/w and 68 color photographs) |
1992 |
2 |
10-12 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Albania, The Baltic States and Eastern Europe (5 b/w photographs) |
1992 |
2 |
13 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan |
1992 |
2 |
14 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for the Ukraine |
1992 |
2 |
15 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for The Baltic States and the Commonwealth of the Independent States (2 b/w photographs) |
1992 |
2 |
16 |
Akhmet Bolenkhan visiting scholars (2 color photographs) |
1993 |
2 |
17 |
Annual report |
1993 |
2 |
18 |
CIAF photographs |
1993 |
2 |
19 |
Cochran Fellowship Program - Hungary |
1993 |
2 |
20 |
Czech Bank (4 color photographs) |
1993 |
2 |
21 |
Czech bankruptcy task force |
1993 |
2 |
22 |
Czech correspondence |
1993 |
2 |
23 |
Czech papers |
1993 |
2 |
24 |
Czech reports |
1993 |
2 |
25-26 |
Czech Republic |
1993 |
2 |
27 |
Czech Republic for bankruptcy |
1993 |
3 |
1 |
Czech Republic study tour |
1993 |
3 |
2-3 |
Czech Republic Task Force on Bankruptcy and Debt Reduction Phase 2 |
1993 |
3 |
4 |
Czech study tour |
1993 |
3 |
5 |
Czech Republic/Slovakia |
1993 |
3 |
6 |
Financial statements |
1993 |
3 |
7 |
Financial statements: International School of Banking |
1993 |
3 |
8 |
Nizhny-Novogord, Russia (1 b/w and 43 color photographs) |
1993 |
3 |
9 |
Prague/Bratislava |
1993 |
3 |
10 |
RAAPS report |
1993 |
3 |
11 |
School of Agribusiness Finance (2 b/w and 2 color photographs) |
1993 |
3 |
12 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for the Commonwealth of Independent States of Georgia (3 b/w photographs) |
1993 |
3 |
13-14 |
School of Central Banking for Central and Eastern Europeans (6 b/w photographs) |
1993 |
3 |
15 |
School of International Banking Credit and Finance (2 b/w photographs) |
1993 |
3 |
16 |
Scientific papers from Prague |
1993 |
3 |
17 |
Slovak Republic task force on bankruptcy and debt reduction |
1993 |
3 |
18 |
Slovakia |
1993 |
3 |
19 |
Slovakia bankruptcy law (1 color photograph) |
1993 |
3 |
20 |
Slovakia Bratislava |
1993 |
3 |
21 |
Slovakia papers - Slovak bankruptcy task force |
1993 |
3 |
22 |
Slovakia plan |
1993 |
3 |
23 |
Soviet school |
1993 |
3 |
24 |
Sverdlovsk Zhitomir, Ukraine (53 color photographs) |
1993 |
3 |
25 |
Annual report |
1994 |
3 |
26 |
Czech bankruptcy law |
1994 |
3 |
27 |
Czech/Hungary tour (6 color photographs) |
1994 |
3 |
28 |
Dr. Jozef Toth visit |
1994 |
3 |
29 |
Farmer to Farmer post assignment report |
1994 |
3 |
30 |
Financial Reports - School of International Banking Credit and Finance |
1994 |
4 |
1 |
Financial Reports Central Banking School |
1994 |
4 |
2 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Albania (4 b/w photographs) |
1994 |
4 |
3 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Egyptians (3 b/w photographs) |
1994 |
4 |
4-5 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (2 b/w photographs) |
1994 |
4 |
6 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for the New Independent States (3 b/w photographs) |
1994 |
4 |
7 |
School of Risk Management (3 b/w photographs) |
1994 |
4 |
8 |
Tax School - Croatia |
1994 |
4 |
9 |
Trip to Ukraine |
1994 |
4 |
10 |
Ukraine visit |
1994 |
4 |
11 |
Annual report |
1995 |
4 |
12 |
Field based assessments |
1995 |
4 |
13 |
International Banking Institute |
1995 |
4 |
14 |
Romania study tour (11 color photographs) |
1995 |
4 |
15 |
Russian Bankruptcy School (3 b/w and 3 color photographs) |
1995 |
4 |
16 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 17 (3 b/w and 19 color photographs) |
1995 |
4 |
17 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Russia |
1995 |
4 |
18 |
Slovakia Delegation visitor profiles (1 b/w photograph) |
1995 |
4 |
19 |
Trip to Armenia |
1995 |
4 |
20 |
USDA Cochran Fellowship |
1995 |
4 |
21 |
Annual report |
1996 |
4 |
22 |
Agricultural Credit School for Croatia |
1996 |
4 |
23-25 |
Grant contract and financial statements |
1996 |
4 |
26 |
Insurance School for Zuzana Rihavkova |
1996 |
4 |
27 |
Libor Grega visit |
1996 |
4 |
28 |
Regulatory School for Albania |
1996 |
4 |
29 |
Regulatory School for Slovakia 2 |
1996 |
4 |
30 |
Russia School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance (2 b/w photographs) |
1996 |
4 |
31 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 14 (2 b/w photographs) |
1996 |
4 |
32 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance for Georgia (7 b/w photographs) |
1996 |
4 |
33-34 |
Serbia trip (8 color photographs) |
1996 |
4 |
35 |
Ukraine Banker Training |
1996 |
5 |
1 |
Annual report |
1997 |
7 |
12 |
Banquets for Banking Schools |
1997 |
5 |
2 |
Chun Chan visit |
1997 |
5 |
3 |
Drini Salko visit |
1997 |
5 |
4 |
Gabor Remenyi Budapest, Hungary visit |
1997 |
5 |
5 |
Hebei, China, trip |
1997 |
5 |
6 |
National Bankruptcy Review Commission |
1997 |
5 |
7-8 |
Pakistan Bank Regulation |
1997 |
5 |
9 |
Rural Development USDA |
1997 |
5 |
10 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 10 (2 b/w photographs) |
1997 |
5 |
11 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 21 (2 b/w and 20 color photographs) |
1997 |
5 |
12 |
Washington, D.C. trip |
1997 |
5 |
13-14 |
Bank Restructuring Estonia (2 b/w photographs) |
1998 |
5 |
15-16 |
Banking School - Albanian Bank Regulators |
1998 |
5 |
17 |
Banking School Bosnia-Herzegovina (2 b/w photographs) |
1998 |
5 |
18 |
Banking School - Croatia |
1998 |
5 |
19 |
Financial statements |
1998 |
5 |
20 |
Iowa/Stavropov trip |
1998 |
5 |
21 |
Oleg Ovchinnikov visit with USDA |
1998 |
5 |
22 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 22 (4 b/w photographs) |
1998 |
5 |
23 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 24 (3 b/w photographs) |
1998 |
5 |
24 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance USDA (3 b/w photographs) |
1998 |
5 |
25 |
School of Banking for Pakistan (2 b/w photographs) |
1998 |
5 |
26 |
Vietnam project |
1998 |
6 |
1 |
Agricultural Credit School - Azerbaijan (1 b/w photograph) |
1999 |
6 |
2 |
Annual reports |
1999 |
6 |
3 |
Banking School Pakistan (3 b/w photographs) |
1999 |
6 |
4 |
Cooperatives Leadership School for Croatia |
1999 |
6 |
5 |
Financial reports |
1999 |
6 |
6 |
Pakistan Bank Regulations - financial statements |
1999 |
6 |
7 |
School for Banking for Pakistan (7 b/w photographs) |
1999 |
6 |
8 |
School for International Trade and Finance |
1999 |
6 |
9 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 25 |
1999 |
6 |
10 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 26 (2 b/w photographs) |
1999 |
6 |
11-12 |
School of Bank Regulation State Bank of Pakistan (9 b/w photographs) |
1999 |
6 |
13 |
School of International Trade for Thailand and Vietnam (3 b/w photographs) |
1999 |
6 |
14 |
World Bank Consultancy Report - Pakistan Banking School |
1999 |
6 |
15 |
Agricultural study tour - Ministry of Agriculture Bulgaria |
2000 |
6 |
16 |
Bosnia Herzegovina Banker’s Association (4 color photographs) |
2000 |
6 |
17 |
Financial reports |
2000 |
6 |
18 |
International Trade School for West Africa |
2000 |
6 |
19 |
Kenya Banking School |
2000 |
6 |
20 |
Rural Development Policy |
2000 |
6 |
21 |
Saratov Veronies Russia |
2000 |
6 |
22 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance (2 color photographs) |
2000 |
6 |
23 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 27 (5 color photographs) |
2000 |
6 |
24 |
School of trade for Asia |
2000 |
6 |
25 |
State Bank of Pakistan |
2000 |
6 |
26 |
Farmer to Farmer Russia |
2001 |
6 |
27 |
Financial statements |
2001 |
6 |
28 |
Gert Grobler Training, Namibia, Africa |
2001 |
6 |
29 |
Rural Credit Cooperative Development (12 color photographs) |
2001 |
6 |
30 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 29 (26 color photographs) |
2001 |
6 |
31 |
Tajikistan trip |
2001 |
6 |
32 |
U.S. Commodities Trade and Finance - Asia |
2001 |
6 |
33 |
USDA Cochran Fellows Group for Export Finance - Africa |
2001 |
6 |
34 |
USDA MAP Credit Development Review |
2001 |
7 |
1 |
Armenia Marketing Assistance Project (1 color photograph) |
2002 |
7 |
2 |
Central Europe Agricultural Policy |
2002 |
7 |
3 |
Cochran Agricultural Business Plan Development for South Africa |
2002 |
7 |
4 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 30 (1 color photograph) |
2002 |
7 |
5 |
School of Agricultural Banking, Credit and Finance 31 (4 color photographs) |
2002 |
7 |
6 |
U.S. Biotechnology Study Tour Bulgarian Legislators |
2002 |
7 |
7 |
Washington, D.C. trip |
2002 |
7 |
8 |
Armenia-USDA visit |
2003 |
7 |
9 |
Micro-credit Summit, New York |
2003 |
7 |
13 |
Assistance to Countries Transitioning to a Market Economy Nominations for Distinguished Extension Program |
undated |