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Jordan Customs Advances in Training, Public Service
March 1, 2016 Jordan’s Customs Agency has become a regional resource for training in the safe and efficient movement of goods as well as a leader in commitment to public service. The agency’s Regional Customs Training Center, accredited by the ...
Mangum’s Competition Analysis Prevails in Patent Case
February 16, 2016 Economic analysis by Russell W. Mangum III, senior vice president at Nathan Associates, prevailed in a patent decision involving LED semiconductor ighting products. After ruling last month that Everlight Electronics Co. had infringed three patents held by ...
Women’s Economic Progress in the 20 Years Since Beijing Has Bright Spots, Shadows
September 30, 2015—Experts in gender, labor, and inclusive development gathered Tuesday at Nathan Associates to assess women’s economic progress in the 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was hammered out in 1995. Moderator Louise Williams, a Principal Associate in ...
APEC Female Entrepreneurs Connect Quickly through Website
September 23, 2015 A new website will give female entrepreneurs throughout the Asia Pacific region ready access to information, networks, and potential markets. The Women’s Entrepreneurship in APEC initiative, or WE-APEC, last week officially introduced the website, which offers a ...
APEC Health Policies Guide Advances Women’s Economic Participation
September 22, 2015 A new guidebook offers policy choices for promoting women’s health as a way to advance economic growth in the Asia Pacific. The APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economic Policy Toolkit, released last week in Manila, outlines five areas ...
Kiribati Completes Sale of Telecom Services Kiribati Ltd
June 1, 2015 The Kiribati government has sold Telecom Services Kiribati Ltd. (TSKL), the state-owned telecommunications monopoly, in a privatization move for which Nathan Associates Inc. advised the island nation. The government of the Republic of Kiribati completed the sale ...
Nathan Associates Presents Data Framework for APEC Women in Transportation at White House
August 4, 2015 On July 28, Nathan's CEO, Susan Chodakewitz, moderated an expert panel at the White House on the progress of women in the transport sectors of APEC members. Louise Williams, a principal associate of the firm, presented the ...
Nathan Increases Myanmar Presence with Private Sector Development Work
Nathan Associates will implement a five-year program to increase broad-based economic opportunities in Burma (Myanmar) through more inclusive economic governance rules and processes and by increasing access to finance for businesses, individuals, and other emerging economic actors. The $23.3 million ...
Working Outside Home: No Easy Choice for Women in Developing World
By CAROLINE KAUFMAN June 2, 2015 The relationship between women and the labor force is filled with complexities and contradictions that are far too easily glossed over. For example, paid employment outside the home promotes womens economic empowerment, but this ...
ASEAN Women Take `GREAT’ Initiative to Enter Global Market
Women who lead small and medium enterprises in the ASEAN region will gain greater access to global markets through a marketing and branding initiative that officially began this week. The initiative, Gender Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women ...
Gender Norms Can Change So Women Prosper in the Workforce
BY CAROLINE KAUFMAN Photo: Miami U. Libraries, Digital Collections [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons April 28, 2015,In my last post,Economic Growth\r\nStarts Here–I described the work of George Washington University students just beginning to research women’s labor force participation in Malaysia ...
Nathan Initiative Puts Focus on Women as Economic Force
April 21, 2015-Nathan Associates has long incorporated women’s empowerment in the firm’s economic policy work, taking innovative and creative approaches to gender issues. Because of our expertise and our commitment to inclusion, we have assembled a team of specialists in ...
