They should also be published in the interest of an informed public debate. Continual assessment of the feasibility of fiscal targets . Reform of conditionality arrangements . These benchmarks are currently set solely in terms of macroeconomic variables. Continual assessment of access to basic services .
Structural adjustment is a dynamic process which has to become more responsive to social needs.
This implies constant monitoring and evaluation of the impact of adjustment policies on the access of poor households to social services and economic opportunities. More than this, it requires that the lessons of monitoring and evaluation are reflected in macroeconomic reforms. Avoidance of cost-recovery . Neither the World Bank nor the IMF publicly endorse the principle of cost-recovery at the primary level for basic education. However, by restricting public expenditure, IMF fiscal targets often carry an implicit assumption in favour of cost-recovery from households.