Economics

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Since 1984, DevTech has worked to strengthen the capacity of governments, the private sector, and the average citizen to build a sustainable economy and reduce poverty. The firm has a track record of delivering transformative change in three inter-related areas of expertise:

• Enterprise Development & Competitiveness
• Public Financial Management
• Policy Analysis and Reform

Enterprise Development and Competitiveness

Business Climate and Institutional Reform

• Advising Egyptian exporters of processed foods, furniture, apparel, leather goods, and software on technical specifications to penetrate European and other markets
• Assisting the Panamanian government to define and implement trade and competitiveness policy
• Conducting cost-benefit studies for public sector investment in enterprise development
• Designing and implementing monitoring systems to assess economic and social impact of enterprise and infrastructure development programs 

Global Market Intelligence and Trade Data Analysis

• Assisting the United States Government to monitor trade capacity building activities
• Tracking trade statistics and developing easy-to-use interfaces for a variety of clients

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Advancement and Integration

• Assisting the government of El Salvador to establish a market intelligence and competitiveness unit to foster SME participation in international markets
• Building tools for value chain analysis to identify opportunities and difficulties of SMEs, and to determine how SMEs can thrive in local, national, and global markets
• Creating workforce development programs that provide technical and entrepreneurship skills in Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jordan, and Kosovo

Public Financial Management

Accounting and Budgeting Reform

• Developing an Accounting Certification Program in Angola to create a certified public account profession
• Improving the budgeting process at the national and subnational levels in Nigeria and Ukraine
• Providing technical assistance in organizational change management for the accountant general in Nigeria

Fiscal Policy and Decentralization

• Assisting in the design of the National Commission for Federalism in Mexico
• Formulating policy reforms to increase tax revenues, reduce nuisance taxes, and build a more equitable tax system in Guatemala, Bosnia and El Salvador
• Fostering dialogue to support fiscal decentralization and transparency for inter-governmental transfers in Guatemala and Mexico

Tax and Customs Administration

• Modernizing tax administrations and improving revenue collections in Bosnia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Kenya, and the Philippines
• Introducing cutting-edge information communication technology such as broadband microwave networks and open source code for central processing centers, e-filing, and taxpayer services and registration

Policy Analysis and Reform

Policy, Economic, and Statistical Analysis

• Designing economic reactivation program following natural disasters
• Developing economic and sector-specific statistical information and user-friendly systems for the United States Government to analyze large global data sets
• Assessing the performance of non-project assistance to Nicaragua and East Timor

Capacity Building and Citizen Participation

• Assisting the Panamanian government after United States intervention to normalize the economy
• Integrating gender equity concerns into national and local economic development programs
• Delivering public education services in support of market development