Contracts, Clients, & Partners

AIRD has applied its expertise in international economics through contracts funded by international development agencies, private sector institutions, and U.S. and foreign governments. Its recent clients have included multilateral development banks, U.S. agencies, and foreign ministries of industry, trade, agriculture, and energy worldwide.

Over the years, AIRD has established strong affiliate relations with universities, research centers, and consulting firms. These form an important source of expertise and experience upon which AIRD draws on a regular basis.

AIRD participates in the following Indefinite Quantity Contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development (IQC consortium leader indicated in parentheses):

* RAISE Plus (Associates in Rural Development)
* SEGIR/General Business, Trade, and Investment II (Nathan Associates)
* SEGIR/Macroeconomics II (International Business Initiatives and Nathan Associates)

Abt Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bethesda, Maryland

Associates in Rural Development (ARD), Burlington, Vermont

Brandeis University, International Business School, Waltham, Massachusetts

Centre for Policy Analysis, Accra, Ghana

China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE), Beijing, China

CILSS (Permanent Inter-state Committee to Fight Drought in the Sahel), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), Bethesda, Maryland

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Economic Institute of Cambodia (EIC), Phnom Penh

Economic Policy Research Center, Kampala, Uganda

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Geneva, Switzerland

Groupe de Recherche en Economie Appliquee et Theorique (GREAT), Bamako, Mali

Harvard University, Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

International Business Initiatives (IBI), Arlington, Virginia

Management Systems International (MSI), Washington, D.C.

Nathan Associates, Arlington, Virginia

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France

Overseas Development Institute, London, U.K.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts

Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Boston, Massachusetts

U.S. Grains Council

U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

Universite de Laval, Laval, Canada

University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit, South Africa

West African Power Pool Initiative

The World Bank Group