Скачать или смотреть Socio Economic Impact Assessments: The good, the bad and unfinished business

On 21 January 2016, President Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum in Davos: “Government also decided that from 1 September 2015 all future legislation and regulations will be subject to a Socio Economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) before being passed”, noting that impact assessments will promote greater policy coordination.
The President’s statement followed the May 2015 adoption by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) of the Guidelines for Socio Economic Impact Assessment System (SEIAS).
Leon Louw, Executive Director, Free Market Foundation explains: why impact assessments are essential; what’s right and what’s wrong about the existing guidelines; how to ensure an impact assessment is honest; why law-making should include constitutionality, consistency, clarity AND feasibility; why laws should be consistent with the rule of law, rather than the discretionary, subjective or arbitrary “rule of man”.