Abstract:
This article sets out the challenges facing the practice of Regulatory Impact Assessment
(RIA) in developing countries and then goes on to propose a set of guiding principles with
which to attempt to overcome these. The discussion is based on the findings of a
practitioner workshop on ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Regulatory Impact
Assessment in Developing Countries’ held on 7-8 April 2014 at the University of Pretoria,
South Africa.