Africa: The World Bank policy scorecard: The new conditionality?

While accepted rhetoric says that donors respond to nationally-owned development plans, the reality is that these plans have little impact on either policy outcomes or the volume of loans a country receives. Opaque assessments conducted by the World Bank - known as Country Policy and Institutional Assessments - do. Critics argue that the scorecard is a way to coerce borrowers into adopting the Bank's preferred model of economic development, argues this article from The Bretton Woods Project.