Below for your scrutinity a tentative framework for assessing transport sector political economy, targeted on Sub-Saharan Africa. Your comments will be more than welcome.
A recurring theme in programming is “insufficient ownership” of donor funded projects. Political Economy Analysis, on the other hand, fundamentally asks a different question – it asks how can we make programming relevant to...
Dear all, Please have a look at the new DEVCO consultation on CSOs in Development: section 2.6 certainly makes the link between PE and a strategic approach to CSOs. I find the following paragraph especially interesting: 'For...
This interesting recent blog post by Verena Fritz at the World Bank looks at smart ways of working with existing political economy dynamics to promote developmental change. She calls this approach 'ju-jitsu' because of its focus...
This report introduces an analytical tool intended to help users understand how factors in the global economy and international relations, affect governance and corruption at the country level. It provides a means for identifying...
This website for the World Bank's Political Economy Community of Practice includes useful materials on case studies and good practices examples and operationally useful approaches to political economy analysis. At present the...
Interesting article from Center for Global Development Impact evaluation and Political Economy : what does the "Conditional" in "Conditional cash transfers" accomplish? Read an extract below : January 12, 2012 By Lant Pritchett...
Political economy analysis covers an expanding area of development theory and practice drawing on an extensive and dispersed body of literature. The attached annotated bibliography of key readings provides an aid to navigating...
This 20 minute interview with Clare Brogan from theIDLgroup discusses her experience of working within the Ghana Forestry Commission and the negotiations for the Voluntary Partnership Agreement under the EU Forest Law and...
The Zambia country political economy analysis will not tell EUD staff living and working in Zambia much, if anything, they didn't already know about the country. That is not its primary purpose (although it has been useful in...
