There has been a noticeable movement away from MFO articles and regulations requiring that decisions be based on economic and social criteria alone . The process of close collaboration between actors, described above, is top down. As a result it has significantly reduced transparency of operations and undermined community-based initiatives. The consequence has been an almost complete absence of participatory procedures and, indeed, an undermining of necessary democratic procedures . The process is no longer subtle.
Countries receive funding subject to conditionality.
Invariable conditionality is not itself conditioned by democratic process, it is imposed top down to lever the acceptance, by government, of policies preferred by the donor. The history of the World Bank and the European Commission provide good examples of growing deficiencies in performance on the technical implementation and democratization fronts. The World Bank was founded in 1945 and the European Commission in 1957. In 1957, the European Common Market and a Commission was founded to serve in the fostering the cohesion and development of the economies of Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy. The WB conscious of the gathering momentum of European development shifted emphasis towards other lower income countries outside the European 'theater'.