Evidence to practice: Understanding the audience, context, and indirect effects [1]

Through two first-hand experiences, one at the IMF and the other in Uruguay, Elliott Harris, discusses the importance of analysing data to understand who policy is going to affect and how, as well as that of local context.
*Editor’s Note: This is part of our series on how practitioners use economic evidence.
 

Standfirst: 
Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary General at the UNEP, shares two examples of designing policy.*
Interviewee: 
elliot.harris [2]
Date Published: 
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Tags: 
UNEP [3]
Uruguay [4]
IMF [5]
devaluation [6]
greenhouse [7]
climate change [8]
methane [9]
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Topic: 
Public Economics [10]
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Evidence to practice: Building relationships is crucial [11]
Evidence to practice: Responding to crises [12]
Evidence to practice: Context-based data collection [13]
Evidence to practice: Being open minded and adapting evidence fragments [14]
Forest conservation in Uganda: Using financial incentives to avert climate change [15]
Audio File: 
Audio icon VoxDev evidence Elliott Harris.mp3 [16]
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Pixabay / ranjithsiji