But if it presents a new reform plan before applying for assistance, perhaps it can argue that any conditionality is simply in line with its existing plans?
A new book, Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, documents how IMF conditionality often caused irreversible social and environmental costs on recipient countries and created a global backlash against the IMF and other international institutions.
Of course, and as Van Oorschot (2000, p. 34) summarised in an early paper over a decade and a half ago, restricting access to universal protection schemes has been underway for some time,5 and is especially characterised by a 'new conditionality' (2000, p. 34) of which shared identity is but one feature.
But surely, asked committee member Tory MP Graham Evans, it was necessary to have a tough conditionality and sanctions regime to stop abuse of the system?
First, it is directed towards both an already-resident sponsor and a (would-be) entering spouse (or child), constituting a double conditionality.
Peter Dwyer, professor of social policy at the University of York, told MPs that the new tighter benefits conditionality had unbalanced the role of jobcentres; they were neglecting their duty to support claimants into work, and instead were geared increasingly towards imposing financial penalities.
Again, a mixture of conditionality and in-work support is needed to make reform effective.
It says that while the churches accept that all social-security systems must have a measure of conditionality, the punishments imposed by the government regime are disproportionately harsh.
Mattiacci did not elaborate on why he felt the need to add a level of conditionality.
It happens that when we turn to the theory of uncertain judgements, we find a concept of conditionality in use.
They put forward a "conditionality thesis" that asserts that although certain relationships are non-instrumentally valuable, all relationships are conditionally valuable.
