VANTAGE POINT
We have spent 25 years in global trade. In more recent years, that work has taken us inside government and donor-funded reform programs, working alongside the people responsible for writing, enforcing and living with trade policy. Vantage Point is where we share what that work teaches us, as it develops, not after the fact.
The real bottleneck in Digital Trade Reform isn't the technology
Billions are being poured into digital transformation across Asia and the Pacific, but a new ADB brief confirms what the data keeps showing, the failure point is rarely the platform. It's the governance and institutional capacity built, or not built, around it.
The border is not the problem. The gap behind it is.
Trade digitalisation is moving fast, but the people it was meant to reach, smallholders, informal traders, communities at the margins of formal trade, are consistently the last ones invited into the room where it's designed. Also published by Daily Cargo News https://www.thedcn.com.au/news/the-border-is-not-the-problem.-the-gap-behind-it-is