This paper assesses whether conditionality in IMF-supported programs has helped offset the potential negative effect of …-income countries-shows that growing use of revenue conditionality by low-income countries partially offsets the depressing effect of … foreign grants on tax revenue, particularly on taxes on goods and services. The impact of conditionality is strong in …

This paper assesses whether conditionality in IMF-supported programs has helped offset the potential negative effect of …-income countries - shows that growing use of revenue conditionality by low-income countries partially offsets the depressing effect of … foreign grants on tax revenue, particularly on taxes on goods and services. The impact of conditionality is strong in …

conditions to aid. It reviews the debates on traditional policy conditionality, and potential alternatives, including the ideas … introduce new versions of traditional policy conditionality. The chapter also discusses controversies over the appropriate role …

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for … finding a measure of political importance that is not plagued by endogeneity and obtaining data on IMF conditionality. We … available dataset on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the …