Nextrade has worked in 2018-21 with the World Bank and International Finance Corporation to build a global database, so far with 32 countries, to enable aid agencies and governments to identify the priority constraints to ecommerce and technology use in their countries and different firm segments, and prioritize polices and programs for ecommerce and for the adoption of technologies, building on Nextrade's initial pilot survey and instruments carried out in 2016-17. ​ In 2018

Nextrade was in 2021 hired by a global ecommerce logistics leader to identify optimal trade corridors for global cross-border transactions, including in light of countries' trade facilitation commitments. and other policies