Internet access is a challenge for many exporting SMEs in developing countries.
For this reason, several national trade promotion strategies concentrate on connecting and training SMEs. One of Council s strategic objectives is that all registered Ghanaian exporters should become e-competent by 2003. The Oxford Analytica article describes well the formidable, but surmountable constraints to integrating LDCs into the multilateral trading system. It concludes that vitally needed financial and technical assistance for LDCs will materialize only if potential donors can be convinced that trade-related assistance is central to the development process . They were launched with high hopes, but have since made little progress owing mainly to a lack of funding.