OPEN POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS PROGRAMME

OPEN ACCESS, QUALITY ASSURED, ACTIONABLE POLITICAL ECONOMY ADVICE

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Politics is often the hidden determinant of success or failure. Decades of technocracy have typically overlooked power, elites, and their incentives, leading to disappointment, wasted funds and missed opportunity  — from infrastructure that fails to catalyse growth, to chronic absenteeism that pulls down public services. Nascent demand for political analysis is met by private consulting (of variable quality), or academic research which is rigorous, but not tailored to policy and slow to emerge. 

Open-PEA seeks to shift the paradigm by delivering open access, quality assured, actionable political economy analysis (PEA) geared to any mainstream policy maker.

Open-PEA is a partner programme to the Economic Policy Network (EPN).

AIMS

  • To unlock effectiveness, regardless of funding source (revenue, aid, private sector, philanthropic).
  • To shift mainstream norms, moving beyond the oft-heard refrain of “lack of political will”. 
  • To bridge the gap between analysis and practice and offer a new model for unlocking effectiveness in growth and development — with practical politics at front and centre. 

 

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The Open Political Economy Anaylsis Programme is a new initiative based at the CSAE and hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

 

 

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Contact

open.pea@bsg.ox.ac.uk

 

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