Counterfactuals --- Excellent point. And thank you for providing the report. Indeed, in policy design, policymakers need to navigate scenarios and understand the counterfactual impact of policies. What is becoming more and more common as well is the development of digital tools that allow policymakers to run simulations of their policies not to predict but to visualize that their policies may have either positive or negative effects, etc.

Source author: Maxime Stauffer Maxime.Stauffer@unige.ch