Date: 2001-2005 On April 5, 2005, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Atlanta ordered Weyerhaeuser Corporation to pay Paragon Trade Brands Inc. nearly $460 million in damages. The damages award is based almost entirely on the calculations of Nathan Associates President … Read More
The sun and sea and mountains change color by the hour in Aqaba, Jordan’s only port city, and an ideal place to visit any time of the year. But Aqaba has reached only half of its potential as a world-class … Read More
Dorothy Tembo, Nathan Associates’ Trade Adviser for the Zambia Trade and Investment Enhancement (ZAMTIE) project, was appointed Zambia’s official Chief Trade Negotiator in the summer of 2004. Since then, Ms. Tembo has established a Department of Foreign Trade in the … Read More
Date: 2001-2005 Nathan to help create 20,000 jobs Even as European companies have seized a significant share of Croatia’s domestic market in food products, apparel, housewares, hardware, and furnishings, opportunities abound for Croatian companies to grow and entrepreneurs to prosper … Read More
Date: 2001-2005 After months of technical assistance, the USAID-funded Jordan Poverty Alleviation project, led by Nathan Associates’ Chief of Party Janet Hansen, achieved one of its principal goals: reorganization of the National Aid Fund (NAF). Prime Minister Faisal Fayez announced … Read More
Date: 2001-2005 The influence of the highly successful Croatian Competitiveness Initiative (CCI) was recognized in the recent election of Charles Conconi, Nathan Associates’ Chief of Party for the project, to the Board of Governors of Croatia’s American Chamber of Commerce … Read More
The public-private partnership behind a new campus for South Africa’s Department of Industry and Trade is a social and political groundbreaker. The campus is the first new construction under the auspices of South Africa’s new government and the first project … Read More
Date: 2001-2005 Mandela Economic Scholars Program provides skilled economists for South Africa’s public and private sectors. Newly minted economists launch alumni association to foster debate on economic issues. When Apartheid ended in 1994 few South Africans of color had economics … Read More
Date: 2001-2005 The Competitiveness Initiative, managed and staffed by Nathan Associates and partner J.E. Austin Associates, was praised in the May 14th edition of Poslovni Tjednik, a Croatian business weekly, for “achieving what certain governmental or business institutions haven’t been … Read More
Date: 2001-2005 Economists Ram Tamara and Robert Damuth were asked to determine whether legislation to limit the amount of debt that a nonfinancial corporation can hold in its capital structure was feasible. Here, they explain how they conducted their analysis … Read More