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Digging Deeper into Macro Social Analysis

Digging Deeper into Macro Social Analysis. Gary Green University of Wisconsin. Three questions. What are the main issues essential to include in any macro-level social analysis? What are the primary research questions to focus on in the analysis to make it more development relevant?

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Digging Deeper into Macro Social Analysis

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  1. Digging Deeper into Macro Social Analysis Gary Green University of Wisconsin

  2. Three questions • What are the main issues essential to include in any macro-level social analysis? • What are the primary research questions to focus on in the analysis to make it more development relevant? • How can this information be used to have the greatest impact?

  3. Social Analysis: Entry Points • Social diversity and gender • Institutions, rules and behavior • Stakeholders • Participation • Social Risk

  4. Additional Components? • Nongovernmental organizations —role of NGOS, relationships with the state and communities. • Informal associations and organizations. • Capacity of support organizations —implementation and monitoring. • Mapping of assets related to development.

  5. Assets and Development • Assets defined: Broadly defined resources potentially generating new resources.

  6. Applying Macro Social Analysis to Development • Data (longitudinal and comparative) • Priorities • Change mechanisms (state, market, civil society) • Participation (research, implementation and monitoring) • Pseudo vs. full participation

  7. Research Needs • What are the relationships between assets, livelihood strategies and socioeconomic mobility? • How do NGOs supplement, support, and/or contradict government policies addressing poverty, inequality and mobility? • What is the capacity for development at the regional and local levels?

  8. Improve Impact of Country Social Analyses • Develop stronger involvement of NGOs, government agencies, stakeholders and communities in the design and implementation of social analyses. • Map the broad set of assets influencing development. • Make stronger linkages between macro social analysis, projects and regional development.

  9. Conclusions • Macroeconomic and social programs may be limited in their power. Complexities require digging deeper into the regional and informal institutional dynamics of inequality. • Success depends not only on technocratic knowledge but broad social participation.

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