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Responding to stinging criticism from civil society and the Commission for Africa, the IMF and the Bank are under pressure for a fundamental rethinking of the use of conditionality. The results of a series of ongoing evaluations will be critical. In March, the report of the Commission for Africa called on the Bank and Fund to "micro-manage less and reduce the amount of conditions they place on poor countries". The report's authors blamed the Bank and Fund for taking "little account" of how their policies would impact on poor people in Africa.