Explore conditionality, its role in international aid, loan agreements, and public welfare, and understand its various types, applications, and potential criticisms.

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper studies the impact of expenditure conditionality in IMF programs on the composition of public spending. A ...

The 2018 Review of Conditionality and Design of Fund-supported Programs (RoC) is the first comprehensive stocktaking of IMF-supported programs since the global financial crisis. The RoC will evaluate ...

Today, the ambassadors of the EU member states recommended to the Council to adopt via written procedure an implementing decision under the conditionality regulation as regards Hungary. The ...

Deteriorating levels of democracy worldwide are once again intensifying calls for increased political conditionality in European Union development policy. Against the background of violent conflicts ...

Staff play a key part in designing IMF conditionality, and yet the literature provides a narrow view of their motivations. This article shows how the design of IMF conditionality is linked to the ...

How can America best work with imperfect partners to achieve pressing security objectives? This question bedevils American foreign policy. Case in point: Over the past decade, America’s most essential ...

Dear member of the Council, We are writing in the context of the ongoing trilogue on the reform of the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) to urge members of the Council to reconsider and ...

EU agriculture ministers have voiced concern over the inclusion of social conditionality in the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU's farming subsidies programme, while stakeholders ...