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Laos Business Environment Activity Supports Handicrafts Sector SMEs’ Use of Digital Technology

The USAID-funded Laos Business Environment Activity, implemented by IBI, proudly supported the 2020 Lao Handicrafts Festival in order to ...

Systems Approach to Building ICT Government Capability is Yielding Results in Liberia

Prior to support provided by USAID under Digital Liberia, each Government of Liberia entity pursued its own IT initiatives without coordi...

Content Management System workshop in Liberia brings together IT experts and Public Relations Office

In continuation of its effort to help Liberian Government build sustainable nationwide ICT systems, the USAID/Digital Liberia and eGovern...

Pensées Insolites: Trade Facilitation, It’s Not Ersatz Economics

In the first issue of Pensées Insolites I wrote about how the government of Bangladesh (GOB) is stepping up to the transparency requirem...

Promoting Transparency and Better Governance: The Case of Bangladesh Customs Portal

IBI was given permission to post and publicize this paper by Dr. Md. Khairuzzaman Mozumder which references work done under the IBI imple...

Pensées Insolites: Articles of Faith, Putting the WTO’s TFA to Work in Bangladesh

In my prior role as USAID’s Director of the Office of Economic Policy, I occasionally wrote a column for the office’s newsletter titled “...

IBI Supports Liberia in Bringing Mobile Money to Scale

Mobile Money is gaining more significance in Liberia as a viable payment option, especially for civil servants in remote parts of the cou...

The Launch of Bangladesh’s National Enquiry Point, e-Auction, and Customs Hotline

On September 6, 2018 the National Board of Revenue (NBR) in collaboration with the USAID/Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Activity (BTFA) imple

Automation, Transparency, and Accountability for Trade Facilitation – a Bangladesh Customs Success S

On September 6, 2018 the National Board of Revenue (NBR) in collaboration with the USAID/Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Activity (BTFA) he...

Liberia launches web portal with online information on government services

On July 23, 2018 during a celebration of the 171st independence anniversary of Liberia, Vice President Madam Jewel Howard-Taylor launched t

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