Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation

The TCR could also have augmented its analysis in addition to listing the titles of the consultants’ reports. For a policy and advisory TA with the target of developing policy analysis for government agencies’ reference and consideration the TA’s findings and policy recommendations should offer inspiring perspectives and insights that are addition to what, in the absence of the TA, would have been available to and well known by the targeted audience. To this end, the TCR should have adequately discussed the reports’ contents and quality. It would be useful to clarify whether a critical review process was part of the TA design, and whether and how the review and revision was carried out during TA implementation to improve the quality of consultants’ reports.