some
extent effective.
An efficie
organisation does not necessarily
lead
to an effective policy. For example,
department may be paying promptly
the correct amounts of grants to all
eligible people but without having
the intended effect on their behaviour.
Efficiency measures may be used in
the examination of alternative policies
see whether the same effect could
achieved with less resources or
if more could be achieved with the
to
be
same resources.
Environment
in an evaluation assumptions are required
about the environment in which the
the
Evaluation
policy
economic
operates;
some
to relate
social or
environment,
others
to international
to technology or
relationships. A common error is to
assume
that the future will
continuation of present trends.
Assumptions).
be a
(See
Strictly the whole process of checking
afterwards how far policy objectives
have been achieved and how efficiently
and economically. Monitoring is usually an important part of policy evaluation,
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