CUTS CCIER has the following programmatic areas:
- Competition Policy and Law
- Economic Regulationï
- Consumer Protection
- Investment Climate
Objectives: The main objectives of the centre are:
- promoting research activities in the developing world on themes coinciding or having linkages with the programmatic areas
- wider outreach and dissemination of relevant knowledge and skills to increase awareness and build capacity of civil society, government and business community
- evolving approaches to facilitate active participation of consumers in the process of socio-economic policy reforms; and
- developing and maintaining extensive global network(s), promoting the need for effective regulation for consumer welfare and economic development