Economy

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  • Economic Trends
  • Regulation and Public Policy
  • Sectors and Markets
  • Social Welfare 
  • Statistics, Surveys and Research
Economic Trends

Local Regulations
At Economic Thinkers we constantly follow developments in local regulations and international conventions, treaties, and future standards to be adopted by Malta, to help our clients anticipate changes and prepare for ongoing developments. Expert advice on establishing an education institution in Malta, the applicable international and local regulations and the various implications for different types of education provider is available.

International Developments
Get insight and ongoing updates on the broad spectrum of initiatives on a local, European and International level, and benefit from comprehensive explanations of numerous interlinked projects, initiatives and developments. We monitor dev
Regulation and Public Policy

Regulation
We advise public bodies, regulators and companies on best practices to achieve efficiency and financial sustainability, through restructuring and privatisation. We analyse and design institutional and regulatory frameworks, and are today associated with frontier proposals in social welfare policies in education, welfare, housing, amongst others. 

Economic Impact Analsyis
Our current efforts to build a clear statistical analysis of workforce composition, is leading us to map the workforce and potential impacts of different polices, to inform policy making. Work on wage differentials by region, sector, level of education and other factors, are essential to refine policy impact modelling in Malta. Our current research enables policy makers and key stakeholders to make evidence-based considerations of measures development under different economic scenarios.
Sectors and Markets

Fast growth sectors
Through a network of business advisors and market analysts, clients gain insight and access to fast growing sectors and sectoral growth trends. We also undertake research on specific markets to provide an in depth understanding of market potential as a basis for business strategy development. The uniqueness of our analysis is the focus on consumer behaviour, mapping of key factors of B2B and B2C demand drivers.

Social Welfare

Education Economics
Education contains numerous inclusion related measures and is a pillar of any social welfare programme. Economic Thinkers model the impact of different inclusion measures within the education sector with a view of understanding the efficiency of expenditure in these areas in relation to expected outcomes and international benchmarks of performance.

Social Benefits and Pensions
Sustainability of social benefits is important for both the beneficiaries who cannot do without benefits, as well as for those whose productivity must afford such benefits. We specialise in the analysis of different policies for sustainable social benefits.

Housing 
Housing forms an essential component of a person or family unit disposable income. This is why the impact of housing policies including rent reform analysis is crucial to determine the level of access to adequate housing, the impact on disposable income different housing market structures have, and essential policies necessary to address market imperfections. 

Tax incidence and poverty 
Income distribution analysis integrated with other research is one of the key areas of research at Economic Thinkers. Determination of absolute and relative poverty levels, poverty traps, poverty measurement and statistical sources, as well as integrated policies to combat social exclusion, bring all dimensions mentioned above together under this area of research.

Statistics, Surveys and Research

Statistics
Understanding and sourcing of appropriate local and international statistics requires in depth understanding of sources, methodologies and definitions used for interpretation and inference purposes. We support our clients source, understand and use available data from a broad range of statistical sources.

Surveys
Surveys are the basis of data collection and research. Our survey research, design and  analysis network provide best of breed survey methodology and delivery. Some of the services include 
  • Identifying the relevant target population appropriate sample size;
  • Developing and pretesting the survey questions;
  • Determining the appropriate methodology for the survey; and
  • Evaluating the methods of other surveys submitted as evidence.