See the Revised Staff Statement on Principles Underlying the Guidelines on Conditionality and Operational Guidance Note on the 2002 Conditionality Guidelines, January 9, 2006 1. The recent ...

Viktor Orbán’s defeat has revived a familiar question in Brussels: how and when to release the billions in EU funds ...

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 ...

Your article about World Bank loans (Charities want UK to withhold World Bank cash over loans to poor, November 13) would have benefited from the bank's voice. A report prepared by the charities ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A week after its unveiling, the European Central Bank's new bond-buying plan isn't holding up to scrutiny on Wall Street. BofA economist Laurence ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Nicholas Spiro is managing director of Spiro Sovereign Strategy, a consultancy specializing in sovereign credit risk. Today’s ECB press conference was always going to be about one ...

Daniel Hegedüs is fellow for Central Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States After four days and nights of heated negotiations over EU spending in the wake of the coronavirus, European ...

Since time immemorial the global image of Africa has always been the same. Africa is synonymous with poverty, diseases, tribal or civil wars, illiteracy, rampant environmental destruction among other ...

The Government should review its practice of forcing benefit claimants to jump through hoops like attending Jobcentre meetings in order to claim benefits, a policy unit set up by Downing Street has ...