Gauging with Visa's Social Impact Team SMB digitization and digital policies in the Gulf region
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the world are experiencing the benefits of a broad-based digitization of business and the global boom in e-commerce to reach more customers, access new markets, and scale sales and exports. This has been accelerated by the unprecedented disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, underlining the urgency for agility, adaptability, and transformation. This research produced by Nextrade analyzes how the governments in the six countries o
Analyzing West Africa's digital transformation and digital services with the World Bank
In 2022-23, Nextrade Group continued our work with the World Bank to understand the digital transformation of firms and business ecosystems and how this shapes firms participation in trade, this time in West Africa. The purpose of the project is to produce recommendations for the Western Africa Regional Digital Integration Program (WARDIP) component 3, which promotes the development and integration of West Africa’s regional digital market and the enabling environment for the
Working with World Bank to measure digital trade in services in the Pacific Alliance
In the past several years, a number of trends such as trade liberalization, internet connectivity, and cloud computing capabilities have expanded the opportunities for Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) region's businesses to source specialized IT, engineering, professional services, and other business services digitally from outside vendors, and to incorporate these services into their own products and services. The regional economies have also worked to expand
Working with Hinrich Foundation on thought leadership to digitize trade
Nextrade Group has proudly since 2022 developed thought leadership products for the Singapore-based Hinrich Foundation, on ways to promote trade through digitization. Various analyses to date include: Integration, interoperability and inclusion: Roadmap for East Asian governments to promote digital trade Eyes on the prize: The race to hone visibility on supply chains Making digital payments to power 21st century trade
Promoting B2B ecommerce in Egypt with USAID
Nextrade is working on ecommerce development in Egypt for the USAID's Egypt TRADE project implemented by Palladium. Nextrade is particularly focused on developing an ecommerce roadmap for Egypt, catalyzing public-private dialogue and partnerships for ecommerce development, creating the capabilities for the Egyptian export ecosystem to promote local firms' readiness for ecommerce, and building the online sales capabilities of numerous B2B exporters.
Nextrade helps SBA identify and support the next generation of US exporters and green tech exports
In 2022, Nextrade was awarded a contract with the SBA Office of International Trade (OIT) to understand its customer base of small business exporters and how to optimally service it, in order to promote exports from small businesses. In particular, phase one of the project aimed to: Identify the total addressable market of American small businesses that are or can become exporters, by economic sectors; Identify the share and number of small businesses that are currently expor
