What progress? A shadow review of World Bank conditionality

Critique of World Bank conditionality policies

Published by: ActionAid International, 2006
Via: Eldis

This report is highty critical of the conditions the World Bank attaches to its lending to developing countries. It provides a 'shadow review' of the World Bank's activities, in response to the Bank's optimistic 'Devleopment Policy Lending Retrospective', published earlier this year. The Actionaid review uses qualitative evidence to counter the larely quantitative evidence used by the World Bank, and to to assess how the principles are affecting the overall burden and impact of conditionality.