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Need detailed impact analyses

07/04/2009 | News

"Some families may be hit by more than one of the reform measures, e.g. a reduction in their child benefit, the loss of a 13th month' salary, and a cut in the gas price subsidy (...) which increases the need for preparing and publishing detailed impact analyses." Népszabadság interviewed BI expert Ágota Scharle on the expected effects of the government's crisis-package.

Government is merely a means to an end, viz. the happiness of the whole community and the individuals composing it. (James Mill, 1820)