Recent Publications and Resources
External Evaluation of the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF)
Nathan was contracted in September 2018 to conduct an external evaluation of the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), which assists developing countries in implementing international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards, guidelines and recommendations to gain and maintain market access. This ...
M-Access: Promoting Sustainability in Agriculture Management
Market Development (MADE) for Northern Ghana is a DFID/UKAid funded project that uses the Making Markets Work for The Poor (M4P) approach to increase incomes and yields for smallholder farmers (SHFs) and small rural enterprises. The project is being implemented ...
Customs Modernization Handbook: How Authorized Economic Operators Have Evolved: Latest Developments (2018)
Customs administrations continue to adapt to an ever-changing environment of growing trade volumes, new trade business models, increasing need for security, and demand from consumers regarding speed, predictability, transparency, and cost reduction. In the past two decades, Customs administrations have ...
All Good?: How Credit Scoring Works in Myanmar
This paper examines the role of credit scoring in very low-default environments based on experience in both commercial banks and MFIs in Myanmar, between 2016-2018. It argues that, even in low-default environments, financial institutions stand to gain from digitization and ...
APEC Women in STEM: A Focus on Entrepreneurship
Support for women entrepreneurs in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) can lead to job growth and higher returns for investors. This report, authored by Nathan and funded by USAID and U.S. Department of State as part of the US-APEC Technical ...
Creating Economic Opportunity For Small Businesses in Bangladesh
Business Finance for the Poor in Bangladesh (BFP-B) is a £25m facility to create economic opportunities for small businesses by changing the behavior of market actors in the financial sector. We are improving the policy and regulatory environment for financial ...
