Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors and editors -- Abbreviations -- Problem-driven political economy in action : overview and synthesis of the case studies / Verena Fritz and Brian Levy -- The political economy of resource allocation -- Dealing with a resource shock : political economy analysis and its impacts in Mongolia / Verena Fritz -- Assessing public opinion in the political economy of reform : the case of energy subsidy reform in Morocco / Dorothée Chen, Andrea Liverani, and Judith Krauss -- Political economy drivers of national infrastructure reforms -- The Dominican Republic : moving from exit to voice : shifting incentives in the power sector / Carlos Rufín, Davide Zucchini, Roby Senderowitsch, and Miguel Eduardo Sánchez -- High growth, limited inclusiveness, and poor public service delivery in the Dominican Republic -- Using political economy assessment to reorient sectoral strategy : infrastructure reform in Zambia / Brian Levy and Patricia Palale -- Political economy challenges of national-local interactions in sectors -- Developing commercial agriculture in Ghana / David W. Throup, Chris Jackson, Katherine Bain, and Rachel Ort -- Continuity and change in postconflict Sierra Leone : politics matters for infrastructure sector reform / Marco Larizza, Vivek Srivastava, and Kavita Sethi -- Formal rules, clientelism, and the allocation of project funds across villages in Papua New Guinea / Yasuhiko MatsudaZahid Hasnain, Philip Keefer, and Nicholas Menzies -- Strengthening local service delivery in the Philippines : the use of political economy to craft bank operational strategies / Yasuhiko Matsuda -- Notes -- References -- Boxes.