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consideration be given to formalizing some aspects of the policy formulation implementation, feedback and control process into ASA frameworks? After all, at the farm management level, farm plan formulation and implementation types of issues are commonly considered by agricultural extension economists. For example, Nge suggest the notion that it may be desirable, in so far as possible, to actually include in a model some of the physical activities of offices or agencies responsible for program implementation. This may provide insights into administrative contradictions and inconsistencies, and in so doing, provide an additional degree of utility to the policy-decision making authority.
There is an additional notion that we would like to suggest. The difficulty of developing an analytical economic model which meets the tests of explaining observed behavior and predicting future values of endogenous variables is a difficult task. If we wish to include in our empirical frameworks the instruments and other variables that are inherent in the existing policy-decision making implementing apparatus (assuming that we can't change it to fit our analytical methods) this is likely to make it yet more difficult to construct models to meet traditionally or classically established explanatory and predictive criteria.
While this criteria is desirable, its application to analytical
efforts of this type often results in a decision not to model some phenomenon. or to model it in a manner such that the variable it seeks to predict and structure it seeks to capture are at a "resolution" or degree of aggregation that is of little utility to a policy-decision makers. Its of little