Recent Assignments and Studies

• Market Assessment Study for a Dried Food Processing Plant, Taree International Corporation (in Association with Western Economic Diversification), Phase A: March 1993, Phase B: January 1994.
• Business Opportunities in Poland: A Guide to Agricultural Ventures. Assessment of Polish agriculture and identification of prospective opportunities for strategic alliances, Ottawa-Warsaw, 1992, pp. 293.
• Economic Study of the Canadian Sheep and Wool Industry, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, 1992, (with Sparks Companies Inc.).
• Business Opportunities in Poland: A Guide to Agricultural Ventures, (for External Affairs and International Trade Canada)
• Economic Study of the Canadian Lamb and Sheep Industry, (for Agriculture Canada)
• Expanding Markets, Diminishing Shares? Canadian Food Sales to Japan (for Canada-Japan Trade Council - CJTC)
• The Role of Agricultural Modernization in Economic Development -- case studies of seven agricultural subsectors in eight Latin American countries (for IICA)
• Methodology for Studying Linkage Affects of Agricultural Modernization (for Agriculture Canada and IICA)
• Marketing Opportunities for Western Canada's Pork and Beef in the Far West USA (for Agriculture Canada)
• Canada's Agricultural Sector Business with the People's Republic of China: Overview of Selected Sectors (for External Affairs and International Trade Canada)
• Northeast Asian Market Potential for Canadian Foods to 1990 and 1995 (for Agriculture Canada)
• Freight Rate Adjustment Implications for Canada's Pork Trade With Japan (for Agriculture Canada)
• Canadian Food for Japan (for Canada-Japan Trade Council - CJTC)
• Canadian Food for Asia (for CIDA)
• Report on Specialized Trading Companies in the International Food Industry
• Market study for tropical fruits and vegetables in North America (for Numar Processed Foods Group)
• Pacific Rim Agricultural Trade (for Canada-Pacific Cooperation Committee)
• Worldwide Fisheries Marketing Study: Overview (for Fisheries and Oceans, Canada)
• Worldwide Fisheries Marketing Study: Phase I; Western Europe, East Europe, USA, South America, Japan, Australia and Southeast Asia; country studies (for Fisheries and Oceans, Canada)
• Project Evaluation: The Fishing Industry in the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia (for the Asian Development Bank)
• A Strategy for the Development of the Riau Fishery in Indonesia (for the Director of Fisheries, Indonesia)
• Report of Task Force on Renewable Resources Trade and Development (for Pacific Economic Committee, Indonesia)
• Canadian Forest Products for Japan (for CJTC)
• Manufacturing feasibility and potential product application analyses and explorations - soya-based high nutrition analogs/extenders for meat, fish, poultry, rice, cassava: (1) Brazil; (2) Mexico; (3) peripheral explorations in Peru in the context of Canadian International Development Agency activities. Exploration in Peru included the potential application of fish meal in human nutrition
• Exploration of market requirements -- infant formula and powdered milk/dry skim milk -- Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Venezuela
• Market exploration: Specialized processed foods: Venezuela; Frozen products: Japan and Korea
• Location options for a food-products plant in Mexico

• Capital Markets and Financing of Power Equipment: Exports and Services to ASEAN, Foreign Affairs, Canada and Canadian Power Systems Export Promotion Group (CAPSEP), 1994.
• Electric Power Generation in ASEAN: Market Opportunities, Foreign Affairs Canada, and Canadian Power Systems Export Promotion Group (CAPSEP), 1994.
• Electric Power Generation in Major International Markets: Business Opportunities, Emerson Electric Canada Ltd., 1994.
• Hydro Electric and Transmission Distribution Equipment Manufacturing A Strategic Asset for Canada, Consortium "A" & "B", Hydro Electric and Transmission Distribution Equipment Manufacturers, 1994.
• Canadian Environmental Capabilities Survey, Canadian International Development Agency, March 1993.
• Economic Benefits Study Wang Fu Zhou, Canadian Hydropower Consortia "A" and "B", June 1993.
• NINA: Project Financing Study, Canadian Hydropower Consortia "A" and "B", 1993.
• Economic Benefits Study: NINA, Canadian Hydropower Consortia "A" and "B", 1993.
• Environmentally Sustainable Technology Transfer of Coal-Fired Energy Techniques: Canada and Asia, in Energy Studies Review, (Volume 3, Number 2), McMaster Institute of Energy Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
• Export Prospects for the Canadian Power Systems Sector, report for the Canadian Power Systems Export Promotion Committee (CAPSEP) on the economic impact of continued low levels of concessionary export financing.
• Report on the Potential and Mechanisms for Coal-Based Electrical Generation Technology Transfer Project (preliminary report for Energy, Mines and Resources)
• Financing Future Exports of Canada's Electrical Power Equipment Industry (for McMaster University)
• ! Environmentally Sustainable Technology Transfer of Coal-Fired Energy Techniques: Canada and Asia (for McMaster University)
• Organizers of 1991 Asia-Pacific Coal Fired Power Generation Workshop (for Energy, Mines and Resources)
• Preparation of final report on Asia-Pacific Coal Fired Power Generation Workshop (for Energy, Mines and Resources)
• Market potential for CANDU in Thailand & Malaysia (for AECL)
• Canadian Coal for Japan (for CJTC)
• Report on the Potential and Mechanisms for Coal-Based Electrical Generation Technology Transfer Project, Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, Ottawa, 1991.

• Support to Public Expenditure Report: Methodology for Economic Monitoring in Ghana, for Canadian International Development Agency, Africa Branch, 1995.
• Infrastructure for Development in Asia: Strategic Programing Options, Canadian International Development Agency, Asia Branch, 1995.
• Sources of Economic Instability in the Americas, Canadian International Development Agency, Americas Branch, 1995.
• Guyana Technical Assistance, Seminar & Workshop, Canadian International Development Agency, 1995.
• Co-operative Republic of Guyana: Structural Adjustment Credit, The World Bank, 1995.
• Guyana Community Development: Futures Fund, collaboration with Frans Anema, Dada International, 1995.
• Strategic Partnering Project: Economic Benefits Study, GEC Alsthom Electromechanical, 1995.
• Capital Markets and Financing of Power Equipment, Canadian Association of Power Exporters, March 1994.
• Electric Power Generation in ASEAN: Market Opportunities, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, March 1994.
• Market Intelligence and Deal Tracking, Canadian Association of Power Exporters, February 1994.
• Poverty Reduction and the Bangladesh Garment Export Sector, Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, 1994 (with Keith A.J. Hay and Hillary A. Hay).
• CIDA's Balance of Payments Support Program for Guyana: Evaluation of Support Group Activities, Structural Adjustment Program and Development Lines of Credit, Audit and Evaluation Division, Canadian International Development Agency, June 1993.
• Economic Benefits: Shibuya Hydro Electric Power Station Project, PRC, Canadian Hydro Power Consortia A&B, June 1992.
• Financing Future Exports of Canada's Electrical Power Equipment Industry, Canadian Power Systems Export Promotion Group, Ottawa, 1992.
• Impact Study of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) on Bangladesh, (for CIDA)
• Impact of Liberalizing the MFA For Bangladesh on Specific Canadian Clothing Subsectors, Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, 1992.
• Manufactures: Has Canada got the Goods for Japan? (for CJTC)
• Doing Business in ASEAN: A Guide to Accessing Offshore Sources of Funding (for ASEAN-Canada Business Council)
• Development of Line of Credit for Costa Rica
• Economic cooperation between Canada and Thailand
• Subsector surveys and business opportunities in the Philippines
• Market potential for CANDU in Thailand & Malaysia (for AECL)
• Canadian supply capabilities applicable to enterprise development in developing countries
• Philippine Sector Profile: Industry
• Medium and large scale enterprise policy
• Prefeasibility studies for wood panel projects in China
• Contributions to Royal Commission on the Future of the Canadian Automotive Industry
• Canadian Automotive Industry, International Perspectives
• International automotive trade and the implications for Canada
• A framework of Canadian automotive policy (Government of Canada)
• Market opportunities and purchasing practices: telecommunications equipment Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia
• Manufacturing feasibility and distribution: high nutrition speciality products Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela
• Manufacturing feasibility and distribution: toiletries and cosmetics Nigeria, Brazil, Spain and India
• Manufacturing feasibility, plant location and warehousing/distribution: speciality toys Germany, Netherlands and Belgium
• Plant location: processed foods Mexico
• Manufacturing feasibility and plant location: office machines Brazil
• Market opportunities and distribution: pharmaceutical and health care products Gabon, Zaire
• Market opportunities and distribution: food products -- Korea and Japan
• Market opportunities and distribution: specialty consumer chemicals Western Europe
• Innovative distribution systems: office equipment Western Europe
• Marketing and distribution: educational products and materials Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Peru, Ecuador and Germany
• Export opportunities for US textile fibres United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy
• Applications of automatic vehicle identification systems for marine and intermodal containers, rail freight car, trucks United States and Canada
• Market strategy for fibre optics communications United States
• Other projects have dealt with the development of export oriented industries (India) and with trade and industrial policies of evolving economic groupings, particularly in Southeast Asia. Studies have dealt both with overall policy implications as well as with specific regionally integrated industrial development projects.
• Analogous integrated industry development explorations have covered all of sub Saharan Africa.

• Integrated regional development activities throughout the County of Newell, including the town of Brooks, and the Eastern Irrigation District in Alberta
• Industrial Growth and Employment Expansion in the National Capital Region to 1990 (for National Capital Commission)
• A Methodology for a Strategic Analysis of Canada's Primary Resource Sector (for Science Council of Canada)
• A Development Master Plan for Magrath (for the Community of Magrath, Alberta, Canada)
• "Declining Resources, Declining Markets", International Perspectives
• Canadian Coal for Japan (for CJTC)
• Canadian Forest Products for Japan (for CJTC)
• Minerals Trade in Asia Pacific
• Pacific Rim Agricultural Trade
• A Study of Economic Options. A comprehensive analysis of development options and their impact on principal economic, social and socio political factors, comprising commerce, tourism, agriculture, financial services, as well as trade and monetary policies (for Government of Bermuda)
• Regional Industrial Development Incentives: A Canada US Comparison (for External Affairs and International Trade Canada)
• Draft treaty for the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), covering coordination of trade, industrial and transport policies, with draft Protocol for the establishment of a regional development finance authority (K.N. Gess as sole consultant and draft treaty author for United Nations, U.N. Development Program, and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa)
• Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Wealth and Resources. Basic development of the legal economic concepts, preliminary and final reports to General Assembly (for United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs and U.N. General Assembly)
• The potential for foreign manufacturing/distribution bases in Canada, including analytical review of legislative and other incentives in Canada and the US (for CJTC)
• Telecommunications equipment requirements for modernizing and expanding the systems of East Africa and Zambia
• Tourism and Tourism-Industry Related Studies
• Tourism: The Canada Japan Pattern (for CJTC)
• A Study of Economic Options. Overall analysis of economic development options and their impact, including a key study of the future of Bermuda's tourism industry, outlining policy alternatives for the next ten years (for the Government of Bermuda)
• The Character and Volume of the International Convention and Congress Market. Analysis of market generating and site selection criteria and mechanisms, demand patterns, facilities and transport requirements. Geographic coverage: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong (for United States Travel Service, US Department of Commerce)
• Travel patterns, competitive destinations, travel motivation and marketing channels and related marketing strategies in the series Travel Habits and Patterns (for United States Travel Service)

• The Market for Travel to Canada from Brazil. In depth analysis of travel patterns, competitive destinations, travel motivations, existing and potential marketing channels and marketing strategies (for the Canadian Government Office of Tourism)
• The Market for Travel to Canada from Venezuela. See project description above (for the Canadian Government Office of Tourism)
• Exploration of the organizational structure of, and market opportunities for, Vacation Village. World wide study (for a major international airline)
• Analysis of comparative tourism promotion expenditures in six key markets Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, and Mexico. Analysis of government and private sector promotion expenditures by all major tourist receiving countries, transport companies, resorts and hotels in the originating markets concerned (for United States Travel Service)