Editing Conditionality (section)

==International financial institutions==
Conditionality is typically employed by the [[International Monetary Fund]], the [[World Bank]] or a donor country with respect to loans, debt relief and financial aid. Conditionalities may involve relatively uncontroversial requirements to enhance [[aid effectiveness]], such as anti-[[political corruption|corruption]] measures, but they may involve highly controversial ones, such as [[austerity]] or the [[privatization]] of key [[public services]], which may provoke strong political opposition in the recipient country. These conditionalities are often grouped under the label [[structural adjustment]] as they were prominent in the structural adjustment programs following the debt crisis of the 1980s.