Minister Milinda Moragoda taking question from audience
Mehta: The Governor General Of Hong Kong said, the danger if they gather statistics someone might use them. I think the deeper problem is not data. The kind of data you need has to be in the context of interventions. It’s in the context of the program that data makes sense. The issue is, can you design programs that can do course correction as the data comes in.
Milinda: The bureaucracy, the technocrats, the relevance that’s provide requires a special skill. In Sri Lanka there is a lot of work done. To what extent we as policy makers use that information is another story. [quoted high statistic on child abuse in court cases]. That statistic helps us, but as you say it has other consequences. More work has to be done on that process.
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