River Path Associates, Knowledge consultancy covering Research, Strategic Counsel and Creative Solutions.

River Path is an organisational pathfinder. We work by challenging perceptions, building evidence for change, and mapping the future. We use a range of techniques, including strategic consulting, research, and the development of creative solutions.

We work in the public, private and not for profit sectors, and in multiple professional fields – ranging from demography to communications technologies, and from international relations to retail. But everything we do is focused on four strands that we consider essential to being fit for the future.

Library - Economics

Climate Change: the state of the debate

Climate Change: the state of the debateReport by Alex Evans and David Steven, written for the London Accord.

Client: The London Accord
Date: 01/10/07
View: PDF - Climate Change: the state of the debate

The Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review

The Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review

David Steven wrote a chapter on the FCO from Manchester University Press’s Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review.

“This is an extremely worthwhile academic project which will assist greatly in stimulating debate around the actual CSR.”
– Rt Hon John McFall MP,chair of the Treasury Select Committee

“No Treasury minister would be likely to seize on this alternative CSR and implement every word of it. But like almost everything that comes out of the Herbert Simon Institute, this is thought provoking stuff, and well worth a civil servant’s whistle.”
– Nick Timmins, Public Policy Editor, Financial Times

Client: Manchester University Business School
Date: 01/08/07
PDF: Chapter of the FCO from Manchester University Press
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A Moment in Time

A moment in timeA short but authoritative economics paper, prepared in collaboration with David Bloom and Alan Rosenfeld calling for a serious global business campaign on HIV/AIDS in developing countries. (River Path: co-authors; design and production)

Client: American Foundation For AIDS Research (amfAR)
Date: 01/11/99
View: Presentation
Download: PDF 145kb

Aids and Economics

WHO LogoRiver Path and David Bloom briefing paper on AIDS and Economics for Working Group 1 of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.

Client: World Health Organisation
Author: David E Bloom, Ajay Mahal, Jaypee Sevilla and River Path Associates
Date: 01/11/01
Read online: here