Sources
Reforms are described from primary documents wherever possible — legislation, ministry publications, regulatory notices, official statistics, and original research. News reporting is used to identify developments and context, not as a substitute for the underlying policy source. When a primary source cannot be obtained, the article says so.
Figures and dates
Every statistic is accompanied by the year it refers to when that year matters. Where sources define a measure differently, the difference is stated rather than silently averaged away.
Fact and interpretation
Descriptions of what a policy does are separated from my assessment of what it is likely to achieve. Where I extrapolate beyond what has been observed, I state the basis for the extrapolation and the conditions under which it could fail.
Use of AI tools
AI tools may be used to locate, sort, compare, translate, and de-duplicate documents, and may assist with drafting. Factual claims, figures, institution names, dates, quotations, and citations are checked against the underlying sources before publication. Nothing is published automatically.
Corrections
Errors are corrected in place. Substantive corrections receive a dated note at the foot of the article describing what changed.
Independence
This site is written as an independent personal publication. If a relevant financial, professional, institutional, or other interest bears materially on a topic, it will be disclosed in the article concerned.
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