Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128113 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing No. 18
Publisher: 
University of Bath, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Bath
Abstract: 
Recognising that aid effectiveness critically depends upon the quality of host country institutions and policies, international aid agencies have sought to inform their activities through more systematic political economy analysis (PEA). Three analytical frameworks for PEA are compared, contrasted and critically appraised in the light reflections of PEA practitioners and recent theoretical debate about development management. We conclude that the potential of PEA to improve development effectiveness depends on how far it addresses the micro as well as macro politics of aid, and permits a finer grained engagement between analysis and action. This requires more reflexivity on the part of those who commission and produce PEA, and further movement from intervention to interaction modalities for aid delivery.
Subjects: 
political economy analysis
development management
aid effectiveness
complexity
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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