Mary Njeri Kinyanjui and Dorothy McCormick

Institute For Development Studies University Of Nairobi

P.O. BOX 30197

E-mail: [email protected]

NAIROBI, KENYA

This study is part of a larger project that is investigating the impact of B2B e-commerce on access toglobal markets for developing country producers in South Africa, Bangladesh and Kenya.1 The main aim of project is to build up an empirical basis for examining whether B2B e-commerce enables firms in developing countries to overcome the problems they face in trading on the international market