The effectiveness of conditionality and the political economy of policy reform: is it simply a matter of political will?

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Abstract
Although widely used by international financial institutions, policy conditionality often fails in the sense that countries do not fully implement it. Up to now most research has focused on the design of conditionality. This paper, however, uses political economy analysis to address the issue of non-compliance. Either governments agree to conditions with little intention of carrying them through, or circumstances change the benefit-cost ratio of compliance. Analysis of these circumstances points to ways in which conditionality might usefully be reformed.

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