Problem-driven political economy analysis
Subtitle: the World Bank's experience
By: Verena Fritz, Brian Levy, and Rachel Ort, Editors
Series: Directions in development
Publisher: The World Bank
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781464801211; 9781464801228
Subjects: Case studies; Economic policy; Infrastructure (Economics); Management
Description: "This book shows how political economy analysis can be applied to specific development challenges from different sectors, highlights the range of empirical evidence that can be used and discusses the types of recommendations and follow up actions that result." --Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the authors and editors; title: Abbreviations; title: Problem-driven political economy in action : overview and synthesis of the case studies / Verena Fritz and Brian Levy; title: The political economy of resource allocation; title: Dealing with a resource shock : political economy analysis and its impacts in Mongolia / Verena Fritz; title: Assessing public opinion in the political economy of reform : the case of energy subsidy reform in Morocco / Dorothée Chen, Andrea Liverani, and Judith Krauss; title: Political economy drivers of national infrastructure reforms; title: The Dominican Republic : moving from exit to voice : shifting incentives in the power sector / Carlos Rufín, Davide Zucchini, Roby Senderowitsch, and Miguel Eduardo Sánchez; title: High growth, limited inclusiveness, and poor public service delivery in the Dominican Republic; title: Using political economy assessment to reorient sectoral strategy : infrastructure reform in Zambia / Brian Levy and Patricia Palale; title: Political economy challenges of national-local interactions in sectors; title: Developing commercial agriculture in Ghana / David W. Throup, Chris Jackson, Katherine Bain, and Rachel Ort; title: Continuity and change in postconflict Sierra Leone : politics matters for infrastructure sector reform / Marco Larizza, Vivek Srivastava, and Kavita Sethi; title: Formal rules, clientelism, and the allocation of project funds across villages in Papua New Guinea / Yasuhiko MatsudaZahid Hasnain, Philip Keefer, and Nicholas Menzies; title: Strengthening local service delivery in the Philippines : the use of political economy to craft bank operational strategies / Yasuhiko Matsuda; title: Notes; title: References; title: Boxes.