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The current economic situation has obliged the international donor community to reexamine its stance on the conditionality of development assistance. This study evaluates which controversies persist with respect to aid conditionality, how successful donors have been in stemming the rising tide of aid conditionality of the 1980s and 1990s, and whether the donor community practices what it preaches regarding the allocation of aid based on governance and development criteria. Above all, the report considers how the financial crisis has rendered it increasingly difficult to maintain traditional conditionality frameworks. Strategies for reducing the number of aid conditionalities and for enhancing recipient ownership of aid policies are proposed in light of the unsustainability of existing frameworks.

Conditionality (International relations). --- Economic assistance -- Political aspects. --- Economic assistance. --- Economic assistance --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Political aspects --- Political aspects. --- Political conditionality --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- International relations --- Loans, Foreign --- Economic policy --- International economic relations

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La crise économique mondiale a contraint la communauté des donneurs à reconsidérer ses positions concernant la conditionnalité de l’aide au développement. Cette étude évalue les controverses persistantes à ce sujet et dans quelle mesure les donneurs sont parvenus à contenir la tendance, constatée au cours des années 1980 et 1990, à durcir la conditionnalité de l’aide. Le rapport vérifie si l'aide se répartit effectivement selon les critères de gouvernance et de développement invoqués par la communauté des donneurs. Il montre à quel point la crise financière compromet de plus en plus le respect des procédures habituelles de la conditionnalité. À la lumière du caractère inapplicable des procédures existantes, il propose des stratégies visant à réduire le nombre des critères de conditionnalité et à renforcer l'appropriation des politiques d'aide par les pays bénéficiaires.

Development aid. Development cooperation --- Economic assistance. --- Economic assistance --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Political aspects. --- Political conditionality --- International relations --- Loans, Foreign --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations

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We survey quantitative fiscal conditionality in selected sub-Saharan African PRGFsupported programs, and assess the conditionality against some possible benchmarks and best practices. While noting many caveats, the paper suggests some possible scope for further attuning of this conditionality to countries' specific macro-fiscal situations. The paper also offers some suggestions on how quantitative fiscal conditionality might be further enhanced.

Conditionality (International relations). --- Economic assistance -- Africa. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Economic assistance --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Political conditionality --- International relations --- Loans, Foreign --- Exports and Imports --- Inflation --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Fiscal Policy --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Price Level --- Deflation --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Public finance & taxation --- International economics --- Fiscal conditionality --- Fiscal stance --- Public debt --- External debt --- Fiscal policy --- Debts, Public --- Prices --- Debts, External --- Sierra Leone

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International Aid and Democracy Promotion investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests, and illustrative case studies. This book challenges the field of development to recognize that democracy promotion is unlike other development goals. With a goal like economic development, the interests of the recipient and the donor coincide; whereas, with democratization, authoritarian recipients have strong reasons to oppose what donors seek. The different motivations of donors and recipients must be considered if democracy aid is to be effective. The author examines how donors exercise their leverage over aid recipients, and, more importantly, why, using selectorate theory to understand the incentives of both aid donors and recipients. International Aid and Democracy Promotion will be of great interest to academics and students of development and democratization, as well as policy makers with authority over foreign aid allocation. "The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003050438, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Open Access for this book is generously supported by the Ashoka University.

Economic assistance --- Political aspects --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Politics and government --- Democracy --- Economic aspects. --- Developing countries. --- Political conditionality --- International relations --- Loans, Foreign --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries

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Low-income countries were hit especially hard by sharp increases in world food and fuel prices in 2007-08 and the global financial crisis that followed. In response, the International Monetary Fund scaled up its financial assistance to low-income countries and revamped its concessional lending facilities to make them more flexible in meeting the diverse needs of these countries. Creating Policy Space in Low-Income Countries during the Recent Crises assesses empirically the outcome of the IMF response, and provides insight into how IMF-supported programs in low-income countries have been adapted to the changing economic circumstances in these countries. The authors report that these programs have provided expanded policy space in the face of the global price shocks and financial crisis.

Economic assistance --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Monetary policy --- Fiscal policy --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Political conditionality --- International relations --- Loans, Foreign --- Government policy --- International Monetary Fund --- Internationaal monetair fonds --- International monetary fund --- Inflation --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Financial Crises --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis --- Prices --- Fiscal Policy --- Energy: Demand and Supply --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 --- Food prices --- Fuel prices --- Financial crises --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Kyrgyz Republic