Adelle, CamillaMacrae, DonaldMarusic, AndrejaNaru, Faisal2015-05-202015-05-202015-03Camilla Adelle, Donald Macrae, Andreja Marusic & Faisal Naru (2015) New development: Regulatory impact assessment in developing countries—tales from the road to good governance, Public Money & Management, 35:3,233-238, DOI:10.1080/09540962.2015.10275000954-0962 (print)1467-9302 (online)10.1080/09540962.2015.1027500http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45201This 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.en© 2015 CIPFA. This is an electronic version of an article published in Public Money and Management, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 233-238, 2015. doi :10.1080/09540962.2015.1027500. Public Money and Management is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/mpin20Developing countriesRegulatory impact assessmentBetter regulationRegulatory reformPolicy appraisalPostprint Article