Accountability, transparency
and a positive impact
on individuals,
community and society.
Our Focus
Rivers Economics Consulting has extensive experience in program evaluations, as well as, extensive experience in preparing regulatory impact statements (RISs) and legislative impact statements (LIAs), including stakeholder consultation, cost-benefit analysis, and competition assessments in the following areas:
· Environmental safety
· education
· road access, safety and infrastructure
· pipelines
· royalties on minerals and mining licences
· fees for publicly provided services
· cathodic protection of electrical assets
· chemical standards
· electric line clearance
· agricultural and veterinary chemicals;
· building safety
· child safety
· solar energy and integrated water management systems
· water safety
· food safety
· fines administration
· fire safety
· racing and
· roadside drug testing.
Rivers Economic Consulting also has broad experience in reviewing business models for regulators, government authorities and private businesses including the review and mapping of business processes and detailed activity-based costing.
Core Services
Dr. George Rivers is Director and Chief Economist of Rivers Economic Consulting with solid knowledge and experience in undertaking complex economic and policy analysis over the last two decades. He is also a council member of the Economic Society of Australia. Dr. Rivers is also an adjunct faculty member of the Australia New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) instructing to senior public sector officials in various state and federal government jurisdictions.
George Rivers
Principal and Chief Economist
Our current project
Currently our team is working on activity based costing and modelling of roadside drug testing processes (volumes) for Victoria Police.
We have worked with Australia's largest governing bodies.
Testimony
“We recently engaged Rivers Economic Consulting to prepare preliminary costings to assess the economic burden of proposed regulations in the emergency management sector. Rivers Economic Consulting did a terrific job and provided excellent value for money. George Rivers was thorough but pragmatic in his approach to the costing work. He was highly responsive and timely, and provided us with a high quality report. George was also an absolute delight to deal with. He listened carefully to our needs, and was very professional and personable in his dealings with us and our partner statutory agency. We are currently using Rivers Economic Consulting to prepare another Regulatory Impact Statement, and would definitely use them again for future economic consulting work.”
Sarah Harvey
Director Legal Policy and Executive Services, Emergency Management Victoria (2017)
