Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7393426 | World Development | 2015 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Evaluations of the political conditionality (PC) phenomenon have long focused on the question of instrumental efficacy - whether PC promotes policy reform in developing states. Evidence from the UK nevertheless suggests that this emphasis is misplaced and that donor officials increasingly use PC for 'expressive' reasons - to signal their putative commitment to delivering 'value for money' in a difficult international economic climate. This shift in rationale raises important questions; not least, what do we know about the effects of PC on public perceptions of aid and to what extent, within this dispensation, can contemporary PC be viewed as a 'success'?
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Authors
Jonathan Fisher,