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Policy Advice During A Crisis, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu
Policy Advice During A Crisis, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu
Economics Working Papers
Good policy making is an art. It involves a substantial element of personal judgement about risks and consequences of alternative courses of actions and decisions. It is also a science because it requires systematic gathering and analysis of evidence about a policy issue, and rational assessment of costs and benefits of various ways of addressing the issue. However, in a crisis, there is little time to gather evidence or to search for imaginative solutions to a problem. There is a tendency, in such a situation, to act under pressure rather than on the basis of evidence, analysis or informed judgement. …