Thomas Timberg William Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts, a critique of top-down attempts at economic development, starts with the shocking story of an Ethiopian farming community expelled from ancestral lands needed by a foreign agribusiness firm. The army carried out … Read More
October 31, 2014—Nathan Associates is gearing up to execute the four-year, $21 million Leadership in Public Financial Management II (LPFM II) project for USAID. Our development practitioners will channel their expertise in PFM, trade, macroeconomic analysis, and economic policy through a wide range of activities—training, trade and regulatory diagnostics and analysis, country assessments, and communication of applied research and best practices.… Read More
May 21, 2010–Customs administrators in developing countries now have a practical, step-by-step guide to improving customs performance: the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Program Implementation handbook. Produced by Nathan Associates under the TCBoost project and in collaboration with the World Customs … Read More
Does economic growth always benefit the poor and the disadvantaged? What do we know about how to foster enduring growth that does benefit them? How effective are USAID’s economic growth programs in the context of U.S. foreign assistance objectives? USAID … Read More
Waller at National Defense University December 1, 2011?As the leader of the former Public Finance Management Assistance Group (PFMAG) in Iraq, senior vice president James Wallar can conclude with certainty that expedience is anathema to development. Speaking at the 7th … Read More
November 15, 2012–For some members of the Association ofSouth East Asian Nations (ASEAN), having to import raw material for apparel production dampens competitiveness. In a recent article on the rise of apparel suppliers as Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia, just-style.com turned … Read More
Special economic adviser with fresh ideas in development economics Franck Wiebe, former Chief Economist of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, has joined Nathan Associates? division of International Development Economics as a special economic adviser. Mr. Wiebe will work on a range … Read More
Richard Blankfeld, who joined Nathan Associates in 1978 and played an integral role in the firm?s evolution, has died after struggling for more than two years with cancer. Richard Blankfeld in Stonetown, Zanzibar, in February 2011 ?Richard was a diligent … Read More
August 12, 2014?There seem to be as many ways to gauge port\r\nperformance as there are analysts?but is this abundance efficient or even\r\nuseful? Is there a simpler way, for example, to rank the performance of terminals\r\nwithout imposing onerous data collection requirements? … Read More
August 14, 2014?Usha Chaudhary, chief financial\r\nofficer and vice president at the Washington Post, and Wolfgang Tolle, a\r\nNorthern Virginia technology entrepreneur and international business executive,\r\nhave joined Nathan Associates Inc.?s board of directors. \r\n\r\n Ms. Chaudhary and Mr. Tolle were\r\nelected in August … Read More