Quantitative Value Chain Analysis

Domestic Resource Cost (DRC) analysis is being increasingly recognized as a vital tool in determining a country’s current and potential comparative and competitive advantage in regional and international markets, as well as its capacity to adjust to new opportunities resulting from trade agreements. In addition, this analysis links comparative and competitive advantage with the policy and regulatory constraints that inhibit the exploitation of this advantage.  With many years of experience, AIRD is a leading expert in DRC analysis and application.  More recently, AIRD has conducted such analyses with great success in Azerbaijan, Liberia, Mali, and Rwanda.

In September 2010, AIRD led a highly praised USAID/EGAT workshop in Washington on DRC analysis.  In June 2011, AIRD expanded this workshop to show how it may be applied to particular policy and other issues that arise within projects focused on developing specific value chains.