We reached out to International Economics team after seeing the impactful work done for GIZ on Cambodia’s graduation from LDC status and its implications for the country. International Economics’ extensive expertise in both economic and sector-specific areas was instrumental in achieving our project goals. The process was seamless, requiring minimal input from our end, and the final report exceeded our expectations. The dashboard development, in particular, was outstanding. We highly recommend your services to others seeking a reliable and knowledgeable partner.

The EDM is a trade-related technical assistance project funded by Global Affairs Canada and administered by Cowater International. The project provides trade experts to developing countries to help negotiate, implement and benefit from trade and investment agreements with Canada. The success of the EDM project relies entirely on the knowledge, skills and experience of the experts we recruit through an open, competitive procurement. Over its five years of operation, the EDM has worked with IEC on multiple technical assistance projects and the outcome has been consistently excellent – indeed, the highest quality assistance offered under the project.  The IEC team has demonstrated exceptional professionalism and technical expertise, but perhaps as important, the flexibility and creativity necessary to meet the needs of developing country beneficiaries.  The EDM team recommends IEC to you without reservation.

I worked with International Economics on projects related to trade promotion under the AfCFTA context which was an excellent experience. Their expertise in international trade was evident from the start, and they consistently exceeded expectations, delivering high-quality results on time. The team was responsive, flexible, and proactive, addressing any unforeseen challenges without disrupting the project. Their attention to detail and strong communication made the entire process smooth and stress-free. I would highly recommend their services.

IEC has led multiple activities between 2019 and 2024, under EU funded trade related support. Their approach has consistently been pragmatic and relevant to the needs of our two key beneficiaries, the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Planning. Their work was particularly well received and appreciated by the Indonesian counterparts.

The IEC team implemented substantial parts of the technical assistance to support the EU-Indonesia CEPA negotiations, through training workshops and the development of specialized studies, live dashboards, and several trainings for the future generation of trade negotiators with significant focus on Trade in Services, Trade Remedies, Non-Tariff Measures and new generation trade issues. The Ministry of Trade also requested their support to establishing a sophisticated monitoring system on the performance of Trade in Services and an Institutional Framework to address NTMs, which were provided by IEC. As part of ARISE Plus Indonesia, we also engaged IEC to develop extensive value chains analysis within ASEAN to support Indonesia’s Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2023.

It has been a pleasure to work with Paul Baker and his team and we look forward to continue our collaboration in the future.

IEC’s expertise and professionalism on this assignment was notable and highly commendable.
“On behalf of the Commonwealth Secretariat, we would like to thank International Economics Consulting (IEC) for delivering a high-quality, comprehensive evaluation report covering our Economic Development Programme. IEC’s expertise and professionalism on this assignment was notable and highly commendable.

The Team’s openness, responsiveness and flexibility made for a mutually enjoyable working relationship over the several months of the evaluation process. Together with our colleagues across the Economic Development programme, the Evaluation Team benefitted and learnt, drawing on the technical leadership of Paul Baker and the insights of the technical team assembled by IEC. Pablo Quiles ably project managed the evaluation, ensuring it maintain focus and pace and delivered in spite of the prevailing global pandemic and its resultant challenges to evaluations work everywhere.

The Evaluation Team of the Secretariat is grateful for your contributions to improving the work of the Commonwealth and we look forward to collaborating again in the future. In the meantime, we wish you all the best in your other assignments.”

IEC showed initiative by developing pragmatic solutions and to the implementation of challenges as they arose.
“Paul Baker and the team at IEC impressed us with their skill in navigating the web of Cambodian government stakeholders involved in our project. They showed initiative by developing pragmatic solutions to implementation challenges as they arose. This meant that while their particular assignment was a difficult one to complete, IEC made it easy on my team by proposing workable solutions at all times.”

We were extremely pleased with IEC’s professional approach, clarity of presentations and analytical work, value and insights provided.

We want to thank Paul Baker, and his modelling team at International Economics Consulting Ltd, who helped the Asian Development Bank in supporting the Government of Uzbekistan by building an open economy macroeconometric model. His performance was high quality and well appreciated by us as well as government stakeholders. The model will be used to determine the economic impacts related to acceding to the Eurasian Economic Union. We were extremely pleased with the professional approach to their work and responsiveness, clarity of presentations and analytical work, value and insights they provided, as well as their capacity-building efforts for Uzbek think tank researchers and ministry personnel. His deliverable became one of the important outputs of our project “TA-9905 UZB: Analytical Support on Uzbekistan’s Foreign Economic Policy Issues”.

IEC’s in-depth knowledge of trade and ability to identify market access opportunities has been extremely helpful.
Working with IEC has been a delight. Their in-depth knowledge of trade and their ability to identify market access opportunities has been extremely useful to plan our internal strategies. We look forward to continuing working with them.

The IEC team gave us the right technical guidelines to add an analytical module to our package offering.
“Our customers have an increasing need to have in depth analytical insight while using the Naveo Fleet Management System. In this endeavour, we have been thinking of adding an analytical module to our package offering. As such, we thank the IEC Ltd data consultancy team who gave us the right technical guidelines to fulfill this objective and we are currently implementing the analytics module.”