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SUNY/CID, as a partner to CARANA Corporation, holds a place through March 2011 on the Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR) General Business, Trade, and Investment Services (GBTI) IQC from USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT).  CARANA, with SUNY/CID and its other partners, competes with other short-listed firms to provide technical leadership in business, trade, and investment development and reform – particularly on devising and implementing robust strategies to promote real economic growth, reduce poverty, graduate transitional countries from aid to trade, promote open competitive markets, develop the private sector, and mobilize private financing. 

 

SUNY/CID’s role as a member of the team is to contribute to both the macroeconomic and microeconomic foundation for growth. SUNY/CID promotes legal and institutional reform and facilitates reform of economic policy and institutions.  SUNY/CID contributes to modernizing policies and laws to improve a country’s global competitiveness through strengthening trade-related laws, antitrust provisions, laws in the areas of monopolies and cartels.  It facilitates legal reform of commercial codes including policies related to new business entry.  It helps to address laws on intellectual property and use of foreign technology.  It helps bring about improvements in laws on investment, both foreign direct investment and domestic investment.  SUNY/CID can play a crucial role in helping to improve laws to mitigate barriers to business profitability.  SUNY/CID works at the nexus – where policymakers and interest groups intersect – and helps them interact successfully to bring about needed reforms.  In the area of microeconomics, SUNY/CID promotes enterprise development and competitiveness and microenterprise development.  SUNY/CID works with entrepreneurs and new businesses to assist them to grow and thrive. 

 

Contact for the SEGIR GBTI:

 


Center for International Development
State University of New York
SUNY Plaza
Albany, New York 12246
Phone:  518-443-5124
Fax:  518-443-5126
Email: cidinfo@cid.suny.edu

 

Karen Glenski,
IQC Manager, SUNY/CID
Phone:518-443-5290,
Email: karen.glenski@cid.suny.edu