ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Example: Economic Impact Assessment for a multinational company active in Africa

Challenge
Multionationals are often regarded as value extractors from the developing countries they operate in. They are perceived to extract cash from local consumers and to import goods and services for a substantial part from abroad. Reality obviously is more subtle than that since companies provide employment and financial and non-financial investments. Economic multipliers are thus present which include not only the direct but also the indirect effects of the presence of a multinational.

Quote client
“Economic Impact Assessments often get bogged down in academic detail. Triple Value was able to develop a model with the right trade-off between accuracy and completeness of the effects included. This results in a great reduction of complexity while the model still provides directionally correct answers and is operable by business-oriented people. The model allows “what-if” analyses through which we can study different scenarios about local sourcing, community giving etc.