SUNY/CID, as a partner to East-West Management Institute, Inc. (EWMI), holds a place through December 2009 on the Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform (SEGIR) Financial Sector (FS) IQC from USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT). EWMI, with SUNY/CID and its other partners, competes with other short-listed firms to provide technical leadership in overcoming financial-sector constraints to economic growth in developing countries. The focus of this IQC is on devising strategies to alleviate poverty, to graduate transitional countries from aid to trade, to promote open and competitive markets, and to develop private funding sources for development assistance. SUNY/CID's role as a member of the team is to provide non-bank intermediation in areas such as leasing and microfinance.

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