[UNDERSTANDING,THE,TSP,INVESTMENT,FUNDS]!3 Visit: www.FEDweek.com Investment Records of the TSP Funds The accompanying table shows the returns for funds since 1988, the first year of operation for the C and F funds (the G fund started operating in 1987), rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage point.
Economic Analysis. The application of data to a theory of how people produce, trade, and use goods and services. One may use both qualitative and quantitative tools in economic analysis. For example, given a theory of what causes unemployment, an economic analyst may take the data in an attempt to find its true causes and compare them to the original theory.
Political economy (PE) 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 (Collinson, 2003; DFID, 2009; Duncan and Williams, 2010). PE analysis elucidates how power and resources are distributed and contested in different contexts, and