List of Tables and Figures - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.Mosley - PART 1: RATIONALE AND DONOR PERSPECTIVES - Policy-based lending by the World Bank; M.A.Qureshi - Conditionality in Policy-based lending: USAID Experience; D.Gordon - Policy-based lending: An ODA Perspective; P.Sandersley - PART 2: THE POLITICS OF CONDITIONAL LENDING - Interest Group Politics and the Implementation of Adjustment Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa; J.Toye - Consolidating Economic Adjustment: Aspects of the Political Economy of Sustained Reform; J.Nelson - A Theory of Conditionality; P.Mosley - PART 3: RESULTS - Adjustment Programs and Bank Support: Rationale and Main Results; V.Corbo & S.Fischer - The Many Faces of Adjustment; F.Stewart - The Social Dimension of Economic Adjustment Programmes: Economic Feedbacks and Implications for Medium and Long Term Growth; A.Pio - PART 4: CONDITIONALITY INTO THE 1990s - The IMF in Eastern Europe: Lessons of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s; A.Henderson - Adjusting Structural Adjustment: Getting Beyond the UNICEF Compromise; J.Cameron - Good Governance: Democracy and Conditional Economic Aid; J.Nelson - Bibliography - Index