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The Effectiveness of Policy Conditionality: Eight Country Experiences
Author(s) -
Dijkstra A. Geske
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7660.00256
Subject(s) - conditionality , cape verde , tanzania , aid effectiveness , developing country , principal (computer security) , political science , development economics , economics , economic growth , politics , sociology , socioeconomics , ethnology , computer science , law , operating system
This article analyses the effectiveness of the setting of policy conditions in exchange for aid. Given the emerging consensus that this process is not effective, this article focuses on explaining why not. In analysing the experiences of eight countries — Bangladesh, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia — an ‘augmented’ principal–agent framework proved valuable in explaining why policy conditionality is not effective in these countries. The article concludes that donors should focus on some simple policy outcomes ( ex post ) instead of extensive policy conditions ( ex ante ).