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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Conditionality"”.
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IMF Conditionality and Political Dissent in Developing Nations
Conditionality refers to the program policies required by international institutions, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order for countries to be eligible to receive access to resources provided by such institutions. In the case of the IMF these resources are …
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New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) : a hostage to conditionality?
… conditionalities attached to donor assistance. Conditionality is said by critics to usurp sovereign power, and thus interferes with governance in•• recipient countries, pre-empting self-determination, local initiative, and self-reliance. This discourse is thus located within the tradition of …
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Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012
The conditionality agreements of the International Monetary Fund have received a significant amount of criticism from the 1980s and 1990s and into the 2000s. Critics have found little reassurance from the IMF\'s attempts to reform conditionality after 2000. The 1980s marked a time where …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… of negotiating and resisting work-related conditionality and sanctions in Ireland’s burgeoning labour activation regime. Post-crisis Ireland has witnessed the emergence of a definitive policy trajectory emphasizing lifelong attachment to the labour force through activation measures …
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The "Europeanization" of the Western Balkans; Is European Conditionality Fostering Democracy?
… analyzes the current model of European Union conditionality toward the Western Balkans, which based on a dual approach through the Stabilization and Association Process (SAP). Through SAP, the European Union (EU) is trying to stabilize the Western Balkans, while at the same time associating …
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A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Interpretation of Covenants: Unconditionality and Conditionality in Relation to Justification and Sanctification
This dissertation involves four interrelated subjects: justification, sanctification, union with Christ, and covenant theology. It is comprised of four main parts, set forth with the thesis that the nature of the biblical covenants God makes with humans is both unconditional and conditional (or …
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Donors versus dictators : the impact of multilateral aid conditionality on democratization : Kenya and Malawi in comparative context
… 2003. Conclusions include the finding that aid conditionality is generally effective in producing multiparty elections and pushing the reform process forward in aid-dependent countries where incumbent regimes have historically been pro-Western and desire to remain engaged in the global economy. …
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Conditionalizing Conduct: Political Economy and the Limits to Governance in European Union Enlargement
… argues that European Union membership conditionality operates as a modality of political-economic governance directed at securing the conditions of possibility for a harmoniously functioning political economy of Europe. I argue that conditionality can best be understood not as a series …
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The impact of Europeanisation on policy-making inTurkey: controversies, uncertainties and misfits in broadcasting policy, 1999-2005
… of new legislations in order to comply with EU conditionality, particularly with political criteria also known as the ‘Copenhagen criteria’ and finally started membership negotiations in October 2005. This study aims to investigate and analyse the impact of the EU on policy-making processes in …
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Il contributo dell’Unione europea all’affermazione dello stato di diritto nella comunità internazionale
… of Justice. The second chapter deals with the conditionality policy and focuses on the development and scope of democratic conditionality according to the dominant approach of the doctrine. First, the birth of conditionality is analysed from an economic point of view, especially within …
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Using patchy plant invasions to understand how diffuse interactions modify facilitation and competition
<p>Indirect interactions among plants promote conditionality in competitive outcomes that affect plant community structure and function. I utilized spatially patchy distributions of two invasive exotic plants, <i>Centaurea stoebe</i> and <i>Bromus tectorum</i>, to explore conditionality in plant …
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Using patchy plant invasions to understand how diffuse interactions modify facilitation and competition
<p>Indirect interactions among plants promote conditionality in competitive outcomes that affect plant community structure and function. I utilized spatially patchy distributions of two invasive exotic plants, <i>Centaurea stoebe</i> and <i>Bromus tectorum</i>, to explore conditionality in plant …
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Essays on policy diffusion
… process. I speculate that this domestic factors’ conditionality is less developed in the literature, for example in contrast to network conditionality, and needs more studies. In three chapters, I look at one theoretical approach using Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) to analyse the effects of domestic …
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Essays on IMF-Supported Programs: Analyses of Selected Issues
… with some scholars arguing that excessive conditionality is the root cause of the problem. The third chapter investigates issues on the completion rates of IMF programs and the degree of IMF conditionality over time. We look at the trends in completion and conditionality for the past four …
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How beneficial is work-related activity for one’s mental health? A thematic analysis of experiences of conditionality in receiving employment and support allowance among disabled people placed in the work-related activity group.
… to explore the experiences of claiming benefits, conditionality and sanctions for those who had been placed within the Employment and Support Allowance Work-Related Activity Group. It also aimed to explore concepts of employment in this sample. This research took a critical realist ontological …
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Conflicting Logics? : Implementing Capacity and EU Adaptation in a Postcommunist Context
… This study explores how efforts to fulfill EU conditionality may influence implementing capacity. Firstly, it advances a theoretical framework for this purpose, focusing on how governments may respond to the demands of the accession and what effects this leaves on policy-making structures and …
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Legitimating the IMF : lessons from the Asian crisis
… The increasingly intrusive nature of Fund conditionality has also changed the audiences for Fund legitimacy claims as cooperation from domestic populations became more important to secure implementation. The first part of the thesis explores these developments providing an analysis of the …
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An empirical investigation into the motivations for and consequences of China's aid to developing countries
… the Impact of China's Aid on the World Bank Conditionality', 'A Study on the Role of Human Rights in the Aid Allocations of China and the United States.', and 'The Impact of China's Aid on the Trading Behaviour of Developing Countries'.;The first chapter investigates whether the stringency of …
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