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This selection of key documents will help you grasp the most important concepts of political economy. They represent influential reports which are widely referenced and referred to in the political economy practice. Please note that the selection further includes latest thinking on working politically – moving from political economy to political analysis.




Key documents: SDC

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 Key Reading Documents (SDC)

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    SDC approach to Governance 3/3

    Part 3 Governance in health - a practical guide

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2017
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    Introduction to political economy

    The presentation defines political economy and argues why PE analysis is important in the development context. It concludes with an outline of the main steps of PE analysis.

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2015
    Tyler Dickovick, Jonas Frank
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    Mind the political economy - The value added of political economy

    A powerpoint presentation done for the SDC DLGN F2F (Aswan, May 2013) which highlighs the importance of keeping political economy in mind when working for change.

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2013
    Stefan Hochhuth
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    The case for thinking and working politically: The implications of ‘doing development differently’

    Too many development initiatives have limited impact. This is because genuine development progress is complex: solutions are not simple, those who would benefit most lack power, those who can make a difference are disengaged, and so on. Many development initiatives fail to address this complexity, promoting irrelevant interventions that will have little impact.

    Key Reading Document
    SDC
    2016
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Key documents: other

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 Key Reading Documents (other than SDC)

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    Thinking and working politically

    Development assistance works best, and is least liable to do harm, when the people designing it are thinking and working politically (TWP). However, there has been a tendency to see TWP as mostly a matter for governance specialists.

    Key Reading Document
    GSDRC Applied Knowledge Services
    2015
    David Booth
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    Thinking and Working Politically: From theory-building to building an evidence base - Executive summary

    This paper discusses the steps required to build a robust evidence base for ‘thinking and working politically’ (TWP) in development. It argues that better understanding what works, when and why is an important step in moving thinking and working politically into mainstream development programming.

    Key Reading Document
    The Developmental Leadership Program DLP
    2015
    Niheer Dasandi, Heather Marquette, Mark Robinson
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    Political economy assessments at sector and project levels

    This note is intended to provide World Bank sector- and project-based operational teams with an understanding of why and how to commission a political economy assessment.

    Key Reading Document
    World Bank
    2011
    Alice Poole
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    Applied political economy analysis - A problem-driven framework

    This short paper describes the key components of the problem-driven framework, the relationships between them and how to use the framework to undertake analysis.

    Key Reading Document
    Overseas Development Institute ODI
    2013
    Daniel Harris
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    Politically smart, locally led development - Discussion paper

    Aid donors have found it hard to move from thinking politically to working differently, but there is evidence that they can do so and that this improves outcomes. This paper highlights locally-led interventions that focused on locally salient issues and harnessed the local capacity to discover sound yet feasible solutions. These experiences could be replicated and taken to scale.

    Key Reading Document
    Overseas Development Institute ODI
    2014
    David Booth, Sue Unsworth
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Further reading documents

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 Further Reading Documents





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Videos

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 Videos