For the past ten years, TAC has been involved in many studies and research projects related to the “globalisation” process, mostly through investigation into international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI).

• TAC's primary expertise relies on its unique ability to integrate and combine together academic economic analysis and quantitative tools enabling simulation exercises, policy assessment and advice, microeconomic / industry research (including survey management and data treatment), under a common and coherent frameworkfor international economic research. One key extra ingredient in TAC’s studies is itstotal independence, from governments as well as from the private sector or large financial / multilateral institutions.

• This expertise is applied to very diverse geographic areas, notably South East Asia and the Far East, the Indian Sub-Continent, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America, and for very different types of customers: for private sector companies (in industry, non-financial services or financial activities), such studies are used to feed the processes for strategic decision making in developing countries (acquisition, investment, retrenchment); for government or multilateral institutions, the studies are used in policy support programmes (accession to the WTO, regulatory adjustment, FDI attraction policies…) and are often used in the political dialogue between western institutions and relevant administrations in such developing countries. Our expertise on Africa has been considerably reinforced lately when Mr Jean-Pierre Patat, Honorary Director General of the Bank of France and deputy representative of the French President Jacques Chirac to the NEPAD (New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development), agreed to join TAC as a special advisor on Africa (and banking issues…).

• TAC's expertise is enhanced by its large network of contacts with specialized consultants able to provide specific industry / technical expertise if needed for such trade and investment research. In particular, TAC has established strong links and very fruitful relations with the French company DMI, a leading ‘research engineering’ firm very much involved in international economic issues, notably all WTO aspects. TAC has also a strong relationship with one of the leading Indian consultancy firm, AceGlobal, which gives TAC not only a direct ability to tackle microeconomic and management issues in the whole Asian region, but also a very strong capability in terms of ‘outsourced’ financial analysis.