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CARANA Corporation Wins USAID Economic Modernization through Efficient
Reforms and Governance Enhancement (EMERGE) Activity
Arlington, VA—The CARANA Corporation and
its partner, Nathan Associates, were recently awarded the Economic
Modernization through Efficient Reforms and Governance Enhancement
(EMERGE) Activity by the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID). This three-year
activity will contribute towards USAID/Philippines’Strategic
Objective 2, “Investment Climate Less Constrained by Corruption
and Poor Governance.”The purpose of the activity is to provide
technical assistance to support economic policy reforms that will
cause sustainable economic growth and enhance the competitiveness
of the Philippine economy by augmenting the efforts of Philippine
pro-liberalization partners and stakeholders.
The EMERGE Activity will address policy issues that continue to
impede liberalization, and initiate measures to support continuing
economic liberalization and influence policy to increase competition.
The Activity will focus much of its technical assistance on policy
formulation and implementation related to trade, investment, and
fiscal reforms essential for accelerated and sustainable growth.
It will do so through its own initiatives and by supporting the other
project activities with similar objectives.
The EMERGE Activity seeks to improve the Philippine economic policy
environment through changes in policy, regulation, industry and government
practices, and industrial relations. Its activities will influence
Philippine competitive structure in ways that increase economic efficiency,
increase investment opportunities, improve inter and intra-sector
efficiency, and business efficiency.
For over 20 years CARANA has been designing and implementing results-oriented
strategies for post-privatization economies in the areas of Public
Sector Reform, Private Sector Growth, and Human Capacity Development.
Innovative global development solutions have been provided in over
50 countries throughout Latin America, the former Soviet Union, Eastern
and Central Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. CARANA maintains
a staff of 200 professionals worldwide, with corporate offices in
Arlington, VA.
[Posted August 2004]
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