From Analysis to Implementation: The Practice of Political Economy Approaches to Economic Reform

Tolentino, V Bruce and Tolentino, V Bruce (2010): From Analysis to Implementation: The Practice of Political Economy Approaches to Economic Reform. Published in: The Asia Foundation Occasional Paper 3 No. Occasional Paper 3 (September 2010): pp. 1-15.

Abstract

This paper sketches out the operational features of emerging political economy-based approaches to sectoral economic policy reform. Section 1 traces some of the literature on the political economy analysis of reforms. Section 2 outlines the international development community’s increasing recognition of the political economy aspects of economic governance, and their efforts to undertake sharper political economy analysis of reform challenges. Finally, in Section 3 the paper identifies elements of operational reform approaches that move beyond disengaged political economy analysis towards on-the-ground implementation of political strategies in policy reform processes.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Political Economy, Policy Reform, Politics, Economics, Asia
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists; D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior; H - Public Economics > H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents > H30 - General; K - Law and Economics > K2 - Regulation and Business Law > K20 - General

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