April 27, 2022 -

The EIF recognises that our contribution to creating a thriving e-commerce ecosystem in LDCs is part and parcel of a bigger effort bringing together the expertise and skills of many others. While some are working together with the private sector, including small businesses, others are working with governments. While some invest in building digital infrastructure, others impart knowledge to build digital skills and yet others provide support to prepare and implement e-commerce policies.

March 15, 2022 -

LDCs have traditionally relied on high-cost, low-impact means of showing off their goods by, for example, hiring booths at trade shows and expos. Ecommerce platforms allow them to exponentially grow the number of products they can show off to potential customers, simplify the selling process, reduce transactional costs, increase trade revenues, and boost economic growth.

September 14, 2021 -

New project focusing on selected value chains from seaweed to honey in Tanzania.

July 06, 2021 -

Resilience is necessary in the rice trade, developing it requires many About 80% of Cambodians are rural farmers, and rice is the country’s main crop. But, until the last decade or so, the sector had not been living up to its potential.

May 18, 2021 -

Expanding and diversifying productive capacities will better position least developed countries (LDCs) to tap the financing and e-trade opportunities that will underpin their Covid-19 recovery. This was a recurrent theme in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Least Developed Countries Report 2020, which cautioned however that the international community must first rally with resources, policy space and better international support measures.

November 05, 2020 -

Myanmar was already moving to get its businesses online. With COVID-19, they were able to speed things up.

July 31, 2020 -

The macroeconomic context for developing country trade in the time of COVID-19

July 15, 2020 -

An uptick in business, especially in the delivery of food and essential items, is enhancing resilience in the wake of the crisis.

May 28, 2020 -

UNCTAD has assessed the state of play in the two countries and identified policy actions required to harness ecommerce for development.

May 05, 2020 -

Trade ministry fast-tracks measures to ease access to essential goods and services during the pandemic.

February 18, 2020 -

Originally published in OECD-Development Matters on 5 February 2020

January 08, 2020 -

UNCTAD's assessment identifies available opportunities and barriers to overcome for e-commerce to flourish in the country.

November 04, 2019 -

Enabling growth via ecommerce, trade facilitation and geographical indications

September 03, 2019 -

Without action, one out of every four people living in LDCs will be offline due to the lack of digital skills

August 26, 2019 -

Nepal’s Under Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies talks all things trade – online

June 19, 2019 -

The digital transformation provides developing economies new opportunities to leapfrog industrial age infrastructure, to draw on the vast knowledge spillovers from the internet, to take advantage of new markets offered by digital platforms and to exploit production possibilities enabled by digital technologies.

April 25, 2019 -

Virtual connections, transparency and financing through one platform can make for just the right combination to support MSMEs

April 09, 2019 -

Bhutan’s potato ‘stock market’ goes online

August 08, 2018 -

Geographical barriers, including isolation from main markets, have resulted in issues for Vanuatu to access international networks and grow its businesses

August 06, 2018 -

What do a mountainous landlocked country, a post-war African nation, and three small island developing states have in common?

July 19, 2018 -

The Government has shown a strong interest in adopting economic and social policies that can facilitate the development of the Internet economy, of which e-commerce is one segment. Unlocking its potential will also reduce distance to markets, reduce “sealockedness” and enable Vanuatu to leapfrog certain barriers associated with physical trade

June 20, 2018 -

The distinctive character of trade policy 3.0 is that, in addition to “writing down the rules” of trade in natural language (trade policy 1.0) and use of “single window systems” that replicate paper-based delivery in the digital realm (trade policy 2.0), countries are able to publish computational rules to the Internet in a standard way

April 24, 2018 -

Week of discussions fleshes out research results and next steps for electronic trade in the world's poorest countries

December 08, 2017 -

Ms. Mere Falemaka, Permanent Representative of the Pacific Islands Forum to the WTO in Geneva, shared with us some precious insights about the specificities of the region.