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Policy advice can be defined as the production of knowledge that is relevant for a policy problem and the offering of recommendations regarding possible solutions, or the “covering analysis of problems and the proposing of solutions” (Halligan, 1998, p. 1686). Policy advice can be also described as the various activities aimed at sharing information and knowledge about policies and formulating policy recommendation for action. Policy advice is the result of the matching of the demand of knowledge by decision-makers and the supply of suggestions by the diverse actors who produce different flows of information, data, and knowledge about the policy and the politics in a specific subject matter.