LETTER: Impact assessment systems needed for sound policymaking
It was good to see Stuart Theobald espouse the cause of the "socioeconomic impact assessment system" (Sias) ("ANC fails to use evidence in policymaking decisions (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-12-13-stuart-theobald-anc-fails-to-use-evidence-in-policymaking-decisions/)", December 13).
I have been advocating for this process regularly since the early 2000s, and again recently in a chapter titled "The political economy of giving economic advice" in my latest book. At the outset called the "regulatory impact assessment" mechanism, it was later transformed into what is now known as Sias...
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