Growing the Global Ecommerce Development Survey with the World Bank  

In 2016-17, Nextrade ideated and built a pioneering survey, database and index on ecommerce development with the support of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under Palladium's iBeam work. The database enables governments to identify the priority constraints to ecommerce in their countries and different firm segments, and prioritize polices and programs for ecommerce development. In 2018-19, Nextrade built on these initial pilots, honing the survey and scaling the data with the World Bank across thousands of firms in 18 countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa.