Policy-making in developing countries

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Policy-making in developing countries (From prediction to planning)

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Discuss the article Policy-making in developing countries in 3 pages. Use APA format

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The article written by Attilia Ruzzene titled Policy-making in developing countries: from prediction to planning, centers on the main idea that the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), in the evaluating development policies in developing countries (Ruzzene, 2015). The article presents the most popular point of contention as based on the fact that RCTs may be promising, but the causal effects as measured using RCTs will not have external validity. The use of RCTs for policy-making will require an additional strategy to alleviate the causal effects of RCTs which in the end, makes the idea of improving policy-making in developing countries a pipe dream. In response to this opposition, policy-makers came up with various strategies to alleviate the challenges.

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