Takshashila Academia of Economic Research Limited (TAER), best described as "The Analytical Economic Research" (TAER) group, set up by Financial Technologies (I) Limited, is an independent, non-partisan academic group for undertaking economic, environmental and social research and consulting assignments on diverse issues of public interest and policy making, besides bringing out journals and other forms of publications. TAER publishes journals, books and monographs, commodity-specific training manuals, research papers and seminar proceedings. Currently it brings out a bimonthly journal "Commodity Vision". TAER provides consultancy services to multilaterals, financial institutions, government bodies, and corporates on various economic, social, financial, and environmental issues. Being a research facility, TAER’s consultancy is mostly research-based with a judicious mix of desk and field research. TAER presents a rare combination of senior economists, econometricians, social scientists, and accomplished academicians on the one hand, and seasoned industry practitioners on the other. This places the organization in a unique position to blend economic theory and applied econometric models with the hard-core practicality of ground realities, resulting in implementable solutions to complex problems in a rich theoretical framework.