Competitiveness Advisors in Emerging and Frontier Markets
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Koios Associates LLC

Competitiveness Advisors in Emerging and Frontier Economies

 

We help companies and governments in emerging and frontier economies build productive infrastructure, attract investment, expand trade, and increase domestic added value.

Based in Burlington,Vermont, USA and operating in more than 60 countries, Koios Associates helps emerging market governments and businesses increase productivity and compete in international markets. Businesses in emerging economies often face excessive government regulation and red tape, poor infrastructure, difficulties obtaining land, and challenges accessing export markets. We help them advocate for better policies and regulations, improve access to export markets, and strike agreements with international partners. We work with governments to adopt more business-friendly policies and policies and regulations, make public agencies more responsive to business needs, and provide the services and infrastructure businesses need in order to thrive.

We work with ministries of finance to make taxation fairer and with ministries of industry, ministries of trade and industry, and investment and trade promotion agencies to increase knowledge of and access to international markets and investors. We work with a variety of government agencies and private investors to develop industrial parks, technology parks, agricultural development zones, and special economic zones, to provide businesses a streamlined and more efficient regulatory environment together with reliable and affordable access to customs clearance, serviced land, transport networks, industrial buildings, water and sewerage, electricity, telecommunications, and labor.

 

Contact

➤ LOCATION

42 Moss Glen Lane
South Burlington, VT 05403 USA

☎ CONTACT

info@koiosllc.com
+1 (802) 399-2790 (office) +1 (603) 943-3701 (mobile)

What We Do


business environment reform

Emerging economies often have difficult business environments. Regulations can be complex and their application arbitrary. Institutions lack capacity and transparency. We work with governments to improve and streamline regulations and bureaucratic procedures, and create a more welcoming environment. We help business associations engage with government to advocate for reform and we work with multiple stakeholders to prepare new investment and industrialization policies, laws, and regulations.



investment promotion

Investment agencies often act as gatekeepers rather than facilitators. With experience of investment promotion in more than 40 countries, we bring knowledge of global best practices and in-depth experience of institutional reform. We help these organizations treat both foreign and domestic investors as clients and to provide them with information, support, facilitation, and post-investment aftercare. We help them in design, procurement, and use of effective web sites and CRM systems.



export DEVELOPMENT

Companies in emerging markets, especially small and medium enterprises, can find it hard to identify export opportunities, understand standards and requirements of export markets, provide the required quality and quantities, and meet delivery schedules. Working with export development and business support institutions, business associations, and individual companies, we help enterprises access export opportunities, get trade finance, and participate in multinational companies’ supply chains.



Spatial development and special regimes

Investors in emerging economies can face difficulties getting investment approvals, serviced land, utilities connections, visas and work permits for foreign employees, and building permits. . Special economic zones for industrial, agricultural, tourism, and other activities can provide a streamlined regulatory environment that facilitates access to land, utilities connections, and approvals and permits, as well as an improved built environment that offers reliable security, utilities, and transport links. Such zones often offer temporary exemptions from import taxes and duties. We advise governments on national economic zones development strategies and assist in drafting effective legislation and regulatory institutions. On behalf of public and private sector clients we carry out feasibility studies and assist in raising finance and structuring public-private partnerships.

What Inspires Us

“Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne”

paul Claudel, 20th century french writer and diplomat

"Geometry requires inspiration as much as poetry”

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

"Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.”

eddy merckx, belgian cycling champion

“To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”

CHARLES BUKOWSKI, AMERICAN POET

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. You have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”  

Ernest Hemingway

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

YOGI BERRA, AMERICAN BASEBALL GREAT

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."

Desmond Tutu