| DevTech holds several indefinite quantity contracts related to economics:
Under the Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR) vehicle, DevTech is a member of consortiums for the Global Business, Trade, and Investment (GBTI II) through 2012 Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty Alleviation, and Economic Institutions and Analyses (Macro II) through 2009, and Commercial Legal and Institutional Reform (CLIR) through 2009.
Sustainable Urban Management (SUM II) through 2009. DevTech is a member of the small business holder, Mendez England & Associates. Work in economics includes urban services, budget reform, urban policy analysis, and urban finance.
International Governmental Integrity and Anti-Corruption Technical Assistance Services Indefinite Quantity Contract (Anti-Corruption IQC) through 2008.
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Since 1984, DevTech has worked with governments and civil society to implement sound market-oriented policies that are essential to solid economic growth.
OUR PRACTICE
- Conceptualizing and implementing institutional reform
- Modernizing governments by strengthening their fiscal performance and accountability
- Bolstering market-augmenting strategies
- Transforming information into applicable knowledge
OUR APPROACH
- Increasing economic literacy and understanding
- Facilitating constructive dialogue between governments and citizens
- Introducing technical solutions based on an ethical commitment to efficacy
Our areas of expertise in economics include:
FISCAL PERFORMANCE AND STRENGTHENING
DevTech works hand-in hand with national and sub-national governments to create fiscal policies that support growth and good governance.
Fiscal Decentralization
Tax Policy
- Formulating policy reforms to increase tax revenues, reduce nuisance taxes, and build a more equitable tax system in Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Tax Administration Modernization Project Phase I and Phase I I, and on the Tax Policy and Administration Reform (TPAR) project in El Salvador.
Tax and Customs Administration
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ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
DevTech assists governments, the private sector, and civil society in developing countries to foster sound, stable, and market-enabling economic environments.
Capacity Building and Strengthening
- Integrating gender equity concerns into national and local economic development programs.
- Assisting the Panamanian government after the United States intervention to normalize the economy and support privatization.
Policy, Economic, and Statistical Analysis
- Designing economic reactivation program following the 2001 earthquake in El Salvador.
- Developing economic and sector-specific statistical information and user-friendly systems for the United States Government to analyze large global data sets provided under the Economic Analysis and Data Services Project, and provided similar assistance under the Data Services contract and under the Development Information Services contract.
- Assessing the performance of non-project assistance to Nicaragua and East Timor.
Public Awareness and Advocacy
- Delivering public education services in support of capital markets in Russia.
TRADE CAPACITY AND COMPETITIVENESS
DevTech helps enable trading partners to participate in and benefit from a rules-based global trading system.
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 competition policy.
- Designing and implementing monitoring systems to assess economic and social impact of rural roads construction and rehabilitation in Guinea.
- Conduting cost-benefit studies for five municipal markets in El Salvador.
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 & 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.
- Developing curriculum to improve vocational skills for workforce and small business development in Honduras.
- Researching the value chain process in Guatemala and Tanzania to identify opportunities and difficulties of SMEs, and to determine how SMEs can thrive in local, national, and global markets under an amended Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project – Business Development Services (AMAP-BDS) contract.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
TOOLS AND PUBLICATIONS
For more information, please contact: economics@devtechsys.com
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