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  "title": "2011 Review of Conditionality - Content and Application of Conditionality",
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      "content": "- Reviews the design of conditionality in Fund-supported programs from 2002 to end-September 2011, with an emphasis on recent years.\n- Focuses on the content and application of program conditionality—especially structural conditionality—in relation to:\n  - the 2002 Conditionality Guidelines (the \"Guidelines\"),\n  - the Staff Statement on Principles Underlying the Guidelines on Conditionality, and\n  - subsequent revisions to operational guidance on conditionality.\n- Analysis also examines the implementation of conditionality."
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      "content": "- National ownership of programs.\n- Parsimony in program-related conditions.\n- Tailoring to country circumstances.\n- Effective coordination with other multilateral institutions.\n- Clarity in the specification of conditions."
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      "content": "- Parsimony requires that program-related conditions be:\n  - critical (or the minimum necessary) to achieve program objectives and goals,\n  - critical for monitoring program implementation, or\n  - necessary for implementing specific provisions under the Articles of Agreement (the \"criticality criterion\")."
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