... strengthening governance systems and enhancing governinginstitutions. The modernization of the state, the fight against corruption, the reform of judiciary, the strengthening of legislatures and the ... implement and enforce policy reform and a responsive bureaucracy.16 The recognition of the crucial role of the state in economic management and in the regulation and supervision of financial ... number of grounds. First, despite these researchfindings, the use of conditionality has expanded in scope and depth in the course of the 1990s.As the IMF itself recognizes, the share of programs...