Where the words come from
The three kinds of condition (fiduciary, policy, process); the general agreement on fiduciary conditions; a stable macroeconomic environment as critical for growth and for protecting spending that benefits the poor; the IMF's competence in macroeconomic analysis; trade reforms' overall contribution to growth; the mixed record of policy conditions, 1980s structural adjustment, privatisation and trade reforms, accountability to donors, East Asian sequencing; the UK's commitment not to make its aid conditional on privatisation or trade liberalisation; the IMF's progress in limiting its conditions to areas with a major macroeconomic impact and the World Bank's moves to reduce its conditionality (sections 5.27 and 5.28), and the UK's pressure on both to go further — Partnerships for poverty reduction: rethinking conditionality, a UK policy paper (March 2005), Department for International Development, HM Treasury and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, published on GOV.UK, Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/partnerships-for-poverty-reduction-rethinking-conditionality and https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c24cf40f0b645ba3c6f6a/partnerships-poverty-reduction.pdf. Changes: Sections 3, 4 and 5 condensed and paraphrased; "conditionality which attempts to 'buy' reform from an unwilling partner has rarely worked" and "appropriately sequenced trade measures" recast in plain words; the card examples are our own; the Millennium Development Goals, PSIA and budget support material dropped.
The IMF's three-year loan to Egypt approved in November 2016 to restore stability and confidence; its clauses on an extra 1 per cent of GDP to protect the poorest from inflation and on clearing arrears to international oil companies — IMF Loan Approved: UK supports Egypt (23 November 2016), British Embassy Cairo, GOV.UK, Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/imf-loan-approved-uk-supports-egypt. Changes: Paraphrased; the loan's dollar value, the female participation clause and the UK investment figures dropped; "GDP" given as national income; the UK's comments on the reforms dropped.
The IMF's annual review (Article IV mission) of the UK economy — IMF concludes annual Mission to assess UK economy (27 May 2025), HM Treasury, GOV.UK, Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/imf-concludes-annual-mission-to-assess-uk-economy-upgrading-uk-growth-and-endorsing-fiscal-strategy. Changes: Reduced to the fact of the annual review of the UK; the forecasts and ministerial quotations dropped.
The World Bank's lending arms (IDA concessional lending for the poorest countries, replenished every three years; IBRD non-concessional lending to middle-income countries); the UK's rating of the Bank as among the most effective development agencies; IDA results 2002-13; weaker delivery in fragile states — UK engagement with the World Bank Group 2015 to 2016 (October 2015), Department for International Development, GOV.UK, Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-engagement-with-the-world-bank-group-2015-to-2016 and https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f1616ed915d74e33f43ee/UK-engagement-world-bank-2015-16.pdf. Changes: Condensed; "pre-natal care" given as care in pregnancy; the clean-water figure, IFC and MIGA, and the dollar poverty line dropped.
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