Metaphors and Maps

The Research Engagement Journey of the Institute

of Economic Growth (IEG), India PREPARED BY SUSAN KOSHY, PEC FACILITATOR

WHAT ARE THE EMERGING INTEN-TIONS OF ENGAGING PEOPLE ON THIS RESEARCH?

To bring an awareness of the conceptual framework, its meaning and evidence

into the consciousness of selected, staged and prioritised audiences. Fissioning.....

To grow and evolve the evidence from the research.

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the usual measures of economic growth are GDP and GDP per capita, unemployment rates, rate of inflation etc

That the growth of a country cannot be measured only by numeric metrices/measures. This is not being said at the beginning of the research. Picked-up in a conversation and from reading

The researchers ask: WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL DRIVERS OF GROWTH ACCELERA-TION SUCH AS IN INDIA? AND WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL DRIVERS ON THE COLLAPSE OF GROWTH AND SUSTENANCE OF GROWTH?

clarify with Sabyasachi. Also where does this research locate itself on the ESID site map? India is not mentioned as a case?

"that long-run growth averages often mask distinct periods of growth success and growth failure." "That growth rates are so unstable that it makes the talk of almost meaningless.: pg 1

the researchers say that the growth of economies have to be understood as episodic rather than linear. That economic growth is also determined or influenced by political drivers.

What is this research all about? What is its focus?

Political economy analysis is concerned with the interaction of political and economic processes in a society: the distribution of power and wealth between different groups and individuals, and the processes that create, sustain and transform these relationships over time” (OECD 2009).• “Political economy analysis helps us to understand how incentives, institutions and ideas shape political action and development outcomes in the countries where we work” (DFID 2009).• “Applied political economy analysis (PEA) therefore holds considerable promise to help identify what policy responses and strategies are most likely to work for addressing difficult and persistent development challenges” (Fritz et al. 2014).

So what is political economic analysiswho can use or engage with these outputs?what is the knowledge or evidence being generated by the research?

the differentiator maybe that the research is trying to understand economic growth of a country through the lens and better understanding of political economic drivers

the importance of understanding patterns of economic growth?

how is it different from what has been said so far on political analysis? What is the differentiator?

what is the AWARENESS or SEEING that is emerging from the evidence?

how does the research translate into outputs? What are the emerging outputs to date?

What products do we have from the research so far?

At present it is seen as something over which we have no control. How can we find a way through/having control/by under-standing the phenomena through research and generating knowledge about experiences

for example: being able to find a breakthrough on immunisa-tion for polio by understanding the political economy of polio vaccinations in Sindh and KPK

Governance advisors, Economists (economists aca-demics, economists bureaucrats, economists journalists, economists donors, business?)

SO IF WE LOOK AT THIS LENS WHO COULD BE THE AUDIENCE?

the researcher attempts to unpack the subject by under-standing the phenomena, an idea, experiences to then make it more accessible to people so that they can use it based on their own understanding, context, intelli-gence, insights etc...the research gives others the power

the hero is not the person such as the bureaucrat, the journalist but the meaning of what they are saying.

Print media, social media, blogWHAT CAN BE CHANGE GOALS? TO BRING THIS TO PUBLIC DISCOURSE and language? CREATE EVEN A LEARNING HISTORY?

This research has the potential to "unleash" changes, innovations, by introducing tools for PEA, helping people to find their way through the chaos of a phenomena to find break-throughs. The Phenomena of a political economy

What are the political drivers of growth?

BUT THEN THIS STUDY SAYS WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH AND HOW THAT IS PLAYED OUT I.E..WHAT ARE ITS DYNAMICS OR MOVEMENTS IN THE WAY IT SHIFTS AND MOVES ECONOMIC GROWTH

What is economic growth/development in a country? How is it measured?

Economic growth of a country is the increase in its capacity to produce goods and services over a period of time or when we compare two periods in time.

Dynamics and Political Determinants of Economic

Growth. Getting back to basics

Image of Map used at IEG to leverage the work-in-progress IMAGE CREDIT: SUSAN KOSHY / PEC FACILITATOR

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A starting points for the researchers was the RECOGNITION that long-run

averages of growth MASK, HIDE DISTINCT PERIODS of success and failure of

growth.

The researchers are of the opinion that economic growth in many countries is EPISODIC. That

growth is EXPERIENCED as EPISODIC of SUCCESS and FAILURE. That growth is experienced as

PERIODS OF BOOM OR BUST

What is happening during these PERIODS of SUCESS AND GROWTH that is seemingly INVISIBLE?

As the ESID Partnership says: It is the ‘how’ – and not so much the ‘what’ – of development that

interests us.

This way of seeing economic growth is di�erent from the usual discussions, conversations on

failure and success of growth. The usual discourses on growth uses economic measures such as

LONG-RUN GROWTH AVERAGES

The research is asking:

Why do we see growth periods of boom and bust in developing countries including India? What is

happening during these PERIODS of SUCESS AND GROWTH that is seemingly INVISIBLE?

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05Mapping Personas.Building Audience.

Re-emerging Narratives

Mapping personas of audience in relation to the intent of the research

TAKE 1.• economist journalists who have written extensively on India’s growth.• people who have written on similar themes; • can generate value to research; future collaborations • person who cuts across business and politics• ∞ Finding, naming, inviting audience to workshop, July 2014

TAKE 3• Finding patterns between personas in Take 1 and Take 2. • Are people asking similar questions? What should we add/change in engagement/communication? • Re writing personas.

TAKE 2.

The map SHIFTS and AMPLIFIES.ideas from workshop, presence of research on multiple platforms newspaper articles, blog, seminars expands audienceDeepening engagement with selected people who attended the event in July. Deepening perspectives on the research evidence.

• Post-event analysis. What were the questions asked at event in July?• One-on-one meeting with selected participants from workshop in July. • Economist/academics from universities in Delhi.• Industrialists involved in large corporations and business associations. Reliance industries etc• Senior economists within government• “touch points” such as people who read the newspaper article and blog, follow-up with people who wrote to ask questions about the research.• merging/synthesis of external information into research content/value streams.

Image of IEG Team, from left to right: Surit Das, Publications Manager. Deepika Nair, Consultant, Research Communication. Bikramjit Ray,

Consultant, Engagement with Media. Professor Manoj Panda, Director, IEG. Dr Sabyasachi Kar,

Associate Professor, IEG. IMAGE CREDIT: SUSAN KOSHY, PEC FACILITATOR