Why Settlement License Agreements Should be Used in Reasonable Royalty Analysis

June 14, 2012,In the latest issue of LES Insights, a publication of the Licensing Executives Society, Nathan Associates” experts and affiliates argue for the admission of settlement license agreements, or SLAs, in damages estimation. They present a “licensing negotiations continuum” … Read More

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June 22, 2012

Report on Benchmarked Interconnection Rates Submitted to the Telecom Regulator in Vanuatu

The Vanuatu Telecom Act of 2009 established a system of interconnection compensation in which a network originating a call that ends in another network pays a fee to the terminating network. Networks may negotiate interconnection and termination fees, but if … Read More

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ASEAN’s New Disaster Monitoring System Working From Day One

June 8, 2012–The planned demonstration of ASEAN’s new disaster monitoring and response system in Jakarta turned into urgent application when a powerful earthquake hit near Sumatra. The ASEAN-U.S. Technical Assistance and Training Facility, managed by Nathan Associates, is supporting the … Read More

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June 8, 2012

Nathan India Recommends Changing How Aviation Fuel is Taxed in India

May 31, 2012-As reported in the May 24 edition of The Hindu, Nathan India’s studyAviation Turbine Fuel in India-Examination of Pricing and Tax Regime Governing ATFconcludes that taxes and fees related to aviation turbine fuel (ATF) are much higher in … Read More

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June 7, 2012

Axway’s B2B Software Selected for ASEAN Single Window

Nathan Associates, which manages the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) Project, has selected Axway’s to provide the software solution that will simplify and expedite the processing of import, export, and transit data in seven of the ten member states of the … Read More

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June 1, 2012

Wall Street Journal Cites Indian Gaming Study

Findings from the annual Indian gaming study authored by Principal Economist Alan Meister were recently cited in a Wall Street Journal article regarding a controversial casino development by a Native American tribe in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The article reported on … Read More

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May 23, 2012

Trademark East Africa Challenge Fund (TRAC)

For developing countries, economic growth through increases in trade is the fastest way to reduce poverty. In the East African Community, this requires improving competitiveness of exports at national and regional level, particularly since the EAC market must operate in … Read More

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May 7, 2012

Tamara to Speak at International Competition Law Conference in New Delhi, India

April 27, 2012-Dr. Ram Tamara, Managing Director of Nathan India, will be speaking at the second international conference on competition law in New Delhi. The conference is sponsored by the Competition Law Bar Association (CLBA) of India. Nathan Associates Inc. … Read More

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April 27, 2012

Renewing Development Assistance for Myanmar

ASEAN Commitments Can Focus Donors April 23, 2012 As Myanmar emerges from isolation and pursues reform it is also intending to chair the 2014 summit meetings of the 10-member Association of South East Nations (ASEAN). This is a far cry … Read More

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April 23, 2012

Girl’s Education Challenge (GEC)

Improving learning outcomes for 1 million marginalised girls
The Girl’s Education Challenge (GEC) is a global £300m DFID challenge fund to improve educational outcomes for girls by triggering and scaling up successful innovation among the private sector and NGOs. The focus for the project is not simply ensuring that the use of a challenge fund would enable more girls to have access to learning opportunities, but that girls would remain in schools for long enough to transform their social and economic opportunities.
Launched in 2012, the Girl’s Education Challenge is the largest donor-funded global girls’ education programme, funding 37 individual projects across 19 countries. Projects were selected through an open and transparent process and assessed for their ability to implement new and effective ways to get girls into school, keep them there and make sure they receive a good quality education in ways which are sustainable beyond the GEC funding.
The Girl’s Education Challenge programme is innovating payment by results for projects based on their achievements in terms of girls’ learning improvements. With this comes a rigorous approach to monitoring and evaluation to help understand the impact of different interventions on girls’ learning outcomes. Approximately 70,000 girls across 19 countries are tracked as part of this evaluation, while advanced evaluation methods such as randomized control trials and quasi-experimental research designs are used to understand the girl’s improvements in learning compared to a control group.
Nathan has played a key role in setting up the GEC fund by providing both challenge fund and education expertise, and has provided technical support for setting up the monitoring and evaluation framework. Nathan continues to play a central role in the delivery, management and further development of the GEC evaluation.… Read More

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• Service for Project Sidebar
• Trade and Logistics
• Women's Economic Empowerment

April 1, 2012