Laterite is a data, research and technical advisory firm that helps clients understand and analyse complex development challenges.

Laterite is defined by their ability to embrace and deploy innovative research technologies and methodologies. Laterite uses an anti-disciplinary approach, borrowing methods not only from econometrics but other fields as well. Incorporating these latest innovations in the project work and introducing them to the clients motivates them. Laterite strives to play an active role in transforming development research, to make it more rigorous and impactful. 

Laterite believes that impact is a long-term endeavour that requires being embedded in the local context. It requires building a local team, collecting high-quality primary data, understanding the context, establishing close working relationships with key players and understanding their constraints and motivations. As a result, Laterite only conducts research where it has local presence.