Strengthening Economic Management Program

Technical assistance is usually expected in order to assist the borrower and theexecuting agency to achieve the program’s policy requirements. On the other hand, having theleverage of a relatively large amount of grant or loan funding can often provide an incentive forgovernments to institute policy measures on a timely basis when they might otherwise bedelayed or avoided due to internal resistance or inertia. As shown by this program, the TAdoes not necessarily need to be technically or formally directly tied with the loan/grant but theconditions of the program need to be made consistent with the TA.