“Before policy decisions are announced, experts tend to express the views they think officials are likely to take. This is a serious problem, because high-quality policy-making demands high-quality inputs and high-quality debates,” he said. “There is a clear relationship between expert analysis and official decisions. Before policy decisions, the expert analysis is often illuminating. Analysts fall over backwards to rationalise the official decision.”Objective assessmentMr. Subramanian claimed that experts often hold back their objective assessment.

Source: The Hindu May 11, 2017 17:26 UTC