Recent Publications and Resources
Unleashing Potential: The Internet’s Role in the Performance of India’s Small and Medium Enterprises
In this report, Nathan Economic Consulting India Private Limited (Nathan India) joined with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Google India to analyze the economic impact of the Internet on India’s small and medium sized ...
Interest Rate Caps and Their Impact on Financial Inclusion
The recent introduction of a lending rate ceiling for banks and other financial institutions in Zambia reopened an old debate over the appropriateness of regulatory intervention to limit the charging of rates that are deemed, by policymakers, to be excessively ...
Transnational land acquisitions: What are the drivers, levels, and destinations, of recent transnational land acquisitions?
This paper seeks to assess the role of investment funds and sovereign wealth funds in large scale land acquisitions overseas through compiling the key findings from existing studies and publications ...
Global energy markets and African resource finds
The report finds that East African gas and Mozambican coal are set to make significant inroads to transforming the region into a sizeable supplier of some of Asian energy demand over coming years ...
Pro-Poor Growth Through Support for Private Sector Development
Little time is left to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) of halving the proportion of people living on incomes less than one US dollar a day, and progress in most developing countries has been grim. Written by Nathan ...
South Sudan Corridor Diagnostic Study and Action Plan
The Nimule, Juba transport link is crucial for the initial development of Southern Sudan. The link handles most of the traffic for relief food supplies, other consumer goods, and building and construction material and equipment. Nathan prepared a diagnostic assessment ...
