Definitions for "Conditionality"
Conditionality is the principle that access to new loans, rescheduling, debt reduction, etc, is conditional on certain criteria being met. This is central to IMF programmes, where drawings are conditional on certain policy measures being taken and performance criteria being met; and to World Bank policy-based lending, which is subject only to policy conditions.
Economic polices or structural reforms that [borrowing] members agree to follow as a condition for the use of IMF and World Bank resources [loans] often called performance criteria or benchmarks.
Countries must adopt specified economic policies as a condition for receiving a loan from multilateral financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. One example of conditionality is Structural Adjustment Programs which include stringent austerity measures that in many cases have had devastating effects on struggling economies.
This notion applies to associations in OOA/D. It describes whether the relationship is always present (unconditional) so long as both participants exist or exists only under some specific conditions (conditional). Note that an unconditional association implies that both participating objects are created at the same time when the association is 1:1. (See category on relationships.)
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
the state of being conditional