This volume illustrates many questions around the different donor approaches to conditionality remain controversial. How relevant is the number of conditions? Is ex ante or ex post conditionality more conducive as a mutual commitment device? How can budget support be more predictable-by focusing...

"A investing with confidence: understanding political risk management in the 21st century", is based on papers at the 2008 symposium on international political risk management, host by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and Georgetown University on December 4, 2008. The...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Participants -- Part I Introduction -- Overview -- Keynote Address -- Part II Conditionality Revisited: What Has Changed? -- Chapter 1 Country Ownership: A Term Whose Time Has Gone -- Chapter 2 International Monetary Fund...