...increased the benefits of reform, helping to sustain political support. • Donors do not discriminate effectively among different countries and different...and other soft support without large-scale budget or balanceof-payments support in the phase before governments are serious about reform. If a reform movement...

...it impossible for any African government to develop a coherent policy of its own."19 In other words, donors have not discriminated effectively among different...countries and different phases of the reform process. They have tended to provide the same package of assistance everywhere with the "one size fits all"...

...regretting its earlier pride in its portable 'toolkit' approach, observed in 2001 that in general donors had not discriminated effectively among different countries...process. 'Donors tend to provide the same package of reform assistance everywhere and at all times.' (World Bank, 2001). Another critique of Bank activities...