BGI Consulting team employs social research methods to conduct public policy, economics and other research. Various qualitative and quantitative methods are applied in order to collect, structure, analyse and document empirical data. Exceptional tasks require complex and sophisticated methodological approaches, which ensure appropriate depth and reliability of the research. For these cases BGI Consulting team, in cooperation with renowned experts from other EU countries, have created such systems of research methods as macroeconomic modelling system HERLIT (HERMIN), cost-benefit analysis methodology and tools for practical application, multicriteria system for analysis of public policy management and implementation systems, counterfactual evaluation system, theory-based evaluation models etc. Practical applications of these methods are  fostered by specialised application solutions, which are developed by competent BGI Consulting analysts, who  employ such programming packages as R, VBA, WinSolve and TSP.