Duca Consulting International
What we do
Haina Port near Santo Domingo
Duca Consulting International specializes in technical advisory services for regulatory regimes that promote national and regional economic competitiveness. Our technical assistance is grounded in fact-based analysis and international comparative data; our research and evaluations rely on quantitative assessments for practical solutions to programmatic issues.
A specialty tool we have developed is our Rapid Diagnostics, an analytic facility that offers quick response for programming offices with virtually no compromise of essential information. Our four practice areas are:
Foreign Direct Investment
Enterprise Formation and Promotion
Research & Evaluation
Duca Consulting offers both general and specialized services in trade policy analysis and trade facilitation. We are acutely sensitive to the governance and social ramifications of trade policy decisions—the implications for rural populations, the urban poor, and women. We are equally aware of the economic implications behind transaction and customs efficiencies and are one of very few firms to have the entire WCO Revised Kyoto Convention in-house. Our Rapid Diagnostics allow quick turnaround of abbreviated trade competitiveness assessments for a country or region. Above all, we ensure that our reports satisfy the needs of clients by addressing their development assistance programs.
ILLUSTRATIVE AREAS OF ASSISTANCE
Policy analysis based on multilateral rules (GATT/Kyoto)
Trade in Services commitments(GATS)
Social dimensions of trade policy
Regional Integration Agreements
Trade facilitation assessments
Customs diagnostics and reform
Duca Consulting International has led or participated in numerous investor roadmaps or administrative barriers studies under both USAID and IFC funding. As an alternative to these exhaustively detailed, time-consuming studies, we also offer a Rapid Diagnostic for quick response in assessing a country's competitive position in attracting FDI. Duca Consulting has analyzed the effectiveness of Investment Promotion Agencies in many countries and even drafted successful legislation for a new IPA.
ILLUSTRATIVE AREAS OF ASSISTANCE
Investor Roadmaps/Rapid Diagnostics
Foreign investment laws and regulations
Registering the foreign firm
Trade policy and commercial presence
Investment promotion agencies
Duca Consulting International houses some of the most comprehensive experience available in the formation and development of private businesses. We look at the overall policy and regulatory environments from both local and international points of view. We consider a proper regulatory environment part and parcel of national competitiveness. In the micro and small business sector, Duca Consulting favors policies that foster migration of microenterprises towards formal legal status.
ILLUSTRATIVE AREAS OF ASSISTANCE
Rapid Diagnostics of the enabling environment
Incentives to domestic investment
One-stop-shop windows and proposals
Commercial Code analysis
Business registration and incorporation
Permits and licenses for operating
Duca Consulting International anchors its work in program evaluations to the finest standards of social science research. Our research projects adhere to the concept of total survey design, which proposes that any survey is only as good as the least of its parts. We avoid the anecdotal approach as always potentially misleading. Duca Consulting's core value of integrity is nowhere more evident than in our evaluations and assessments. Our evaluations of training and technical assistance follow a model well known in U.S. corporate circles.
ILLUSTRATIVE AREAS OF ASSISTANCE
Monitoring and Evaluation design
Full probability surveys
Project/program evaluations
Impact assessments