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• Title: Assistance with Fewer Strings Attached (Achieving Global Economic Justice)
• Author : Ethics & International Affairs
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 284 KB

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Since the late 1980s, it has been standard practice for bilateral donors and international organizations to tie financial assistance to the undertaking of political and economic reforms by recipient states. This practice is known as conditionality. In essence, conditionality is a form of power that entails the combination of a promise of aid or financial assistance with a threat of sanctions. (1) In recent years, good governance conditions have increasingly been attached to aid and loans. The term "good governance" refers to a range of policies, from the mundanely technocratic to the deeply political. Transparency and accountability in government, economic liberalization and privatization, civil society participation, and respect for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law have featured prominently on the good governance agenda. The use of good governance conditionality has sparked controversy in the academic and policy worlds. So far, the issue of whether conditionality is effective in achieving compliance with good governance policies, and whether these policies are indeed the right ones, has occupied center stage in the debate. Even questions of recipient country participation and control have tended to be discussed as methods of enhancing the effectiveness of conditionality. (2) As such, the moral defensibility of attaching often deeply intrusive political conditions to financial assistance has largely been taken for granted by the donor community. With the exception of some developing country governments and NGOs that have been fiercely critical of donor conditionality, the principle of conditionality has rarely been questioned. (3) There is some reason for this neglect. Indeed, it may seem obvious that donors should condition aid to badly governed, corrupt, or repressive governments. Surely liberal states and institutions not only have the right, but also the duty, to attach good governance conditions to aid and loans to corrupt and repressive governments.

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