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NGOs and trade unions charge that the IMF and World Bank are still imposing strict conditions on loans to borrowing countries. The Reality of Aid 2002, produced by a global coalition of NGOs, states that: "far from abandoning aid conditionality, international financial institutions and bilateral donors are collaborating in an unprecedented consensus to retool the aid regime under the rubric of 'ownership' and aid effectiveness".