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The Beginner’s Guide to Political Economy Analysis (PEA)
The Beginner’s Guide to Political Economy Analysis (PEA) provides a learning resource for those working on delivering development initiatives overseas.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Political Economy Analysis (PEA) provides a learning resource for those working on delivering development initiatives overseas. It is designed as a more informal and accessible introduction that will encourage development practitioners to use analysis as part of their own work (and not just those with formal PEA training). It reflects recent evidence on how politics and power can impact development and tries to help readers navigate these issues through some everyday analytical tools, looking at some of those questions central to PEA:
- why we do political economy analysis, and what it is
- what kinds of issues and ingredients are often included in a PEA
- how do we make sense of the different varieties of PEA
- what tools are out there to help us conduct a PEA
- what is thinking and working politically