This report prepared for Google and AWS continues our work on the impacts and implementation of digital trade agreements and digital trade chapters in regional trade agreements, by focusing on a critical question on  how well CPTPP members actually implement their digital trade obligations and ideating a  groundbreaking process for the members to together monitor the implementation of their digital trade provisions.

The purpose of this report, produced for the Alliance for eTrade Development supported by USAID and created by Nextrade, is to promote dialogue on concrete policy and technology solutions to accelerate the interoperability of digital payments in the Asia-Pacific, in order to support MSMEs’ crossborder ecommerce.

This report continues our work on the use and impacts of ecommerce among Central American firms and consumers, with Central America's SME agency Cenpromype, replicating our 2019 analytics in the post-Covid-19 era, with over 1,700 firms and 1,100 consumers. 

This report produced with Google seeks to provide early insight into the CPTPP’s potential effects by looking at trade and investment flows in the CPTPP region in the past few years, exploring the views of firms in the CPTPP region on the agreement and especially its e-commerce chapter, and presenting preliminary findings on the CPTPP’s unique impacts relative to other factors that have shaped trade and e-commerce patterns in the region, such as other recent trade agreements, trade wars, and the Covid-19 crisis.

This data-driven report gauges the costs and negative economic effects on Europe and the United States of the EU's sweeping digital regulations, such as the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), and U.S. and European global strategic and national security interests. 

This report prepared for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) rigorously tracks the growth and  sources of digitally deliverable  services  in  Latin American and Asian manufacturing,  agricultural  and services value  chains and proposes ways to expand biregional B2B services flows.

This series of thought leadership reports prepared by Nextrade for the Hinrich Foundation examine the digitization of trade ecosystem in Asia-Pacific in particular and keys to accelerate digitization of trade, such as through innovative and interoperable payments, using of blockchain in ports, customs and supply chains, investing in digital traceability supply chains.

Nextrade Group leads the technical direction and all research in the USAID-backed Alliance for eTrade Development we built in 2017 and grew in 2019, with altogether 14 leading corporate partners. Here are our diagnostics on MSME ecommerce around the world. 

Nextrade leads the ideation and development of new data-driven solutions to enable MSME ecommerce, for the USAID-backed Alliance for eTrade Development. See our latest work on corporate digital identity, data transfer models, programming to support women-led firms in ecommerce, and loan guarantees for Fintechs to scale lending to online sellers. 

In 2019, Nextrade developed for Cenpromype and US State Department diagnostics of how Central American consumers and businesses use ecommerce, what challenges they face, and how governments are working to resolve those challenges. 

Technologies from blockchain to AI, IoT, 3D printing, 5G, digital twins, and more offer tremendous opportunities for governments, including in Latin America and the Caribbean, to facilitate and promote trade and investment.  This report describes exactly how, presenting dozens of technology use cases and policy framework for adopting them. 

Nextrade is proud to present our second MSME Eccommerce and Digital Policy Index and database, produced for the USAID-backed Alliance for eTrade Development.  The database and our dozens of case studies enable developing country governments to learn compare themselves to their peers in the adoption of policies conducive to MSME ecommerce and learn about leading-edge policy innovations.  

Blockchain promises to increase efficiency and productivity in logistics, customs operations, trade finance and cross-border payments. In this paper for the IDB, we assess these opportunities and the regulatory, infrastructure and standards adoption challenges. 

Our new report and firm-level survey with over 2,000 firms in Mexico, a booming ecommerce market with a vibrant Fintech sector, seeks to pioneer in identifying policies to enable Fintechs to better support MSMEs that sell online. We propose that government credit enhancements and loan guarantees on Fintech-issued loans. The guarantee concept could also be applied over time to export credit agencies (ECAs) that in many countries guarantee bank-issued export working capital loans for MSMEs. 

This report contributes to African governments' work to promote MSME ecommerce with new survey diagnostics of over 2,000 African MSMEs, policy analytics in 12 Africa countries, and fresh ideas to enable African MSMEs' ecommerce.

This report presents new data on how different types of ASEAN region MSMEs engage in ecommerce and what challenges they face in growing their online sales, and puts forth ideas on policy and technology solutions for enabling ASEAN MSMEs’ trade and growth through ecommerce.

This white paper is a data-driven roadmap for governments, corporations, and the international development community to optimize capacity-building work to enable women-led firms sell online and thrive in the global digital economy.

African businesses are increasingly using ecommerce to sell their goods and services and access vendors online, including across borders. In the process, they benefit from access to data. The purpose of this report is to contribute to the growing discussions on cross-border data transfer policies in Africa, and to discuss regional data transfer policies that are compatible with the aims of free trade and MSME cross-border ecommerce.

Ecommerce is booming, but one vexing problem remains in online transactions: how does the buyer at the other end of a transaction know that the seller is who they say they are? This report calls for a self-sovereign corporate digital identity that is unique to each seller and associated with the seller’s enterprise and transactional data would be a powerful solution to these challenges. It could dramatically accelerate marketplaces’ customer authentication and banks’ KYC processes, and MSMEs' supplier onboarding in global supply chains. 

This report uses survey data on 2,000 Mexican firms to understand how MSMEs in particular use ecommerce to export - and new policy ideas to promote Mexican MSMEs' use of ecommerce for cross-border trade.