Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer

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Peterson Institute, 2000 - 213 pages
Electronic commerce is changing the ways that businesses and consumers interact with each other, the products they create, buy, and sell, and the way that they communicate, learn, and become informed. How can policymakers position their countries and themselves to take advantage of this new environment? How should policymaking adjust to a more global, more networked, and more information-rich marketplace where relationships and jurisdictions between the governments, businesses, and citizens of different countries increasingly overlap? How can governments effectively harness rapidly changing technologies and partner with both domestic and foreign private sectors to reap the greatest benefits for their constituents? This primer answers these questions using both general analysis and specific examples. It addresses in particular the needs of policymakers in emerging markets who must formulate and refine policies that affect e-commerce in areas such as telecommunications and finance, international trade and domestic distribution, and taxation and privacy. Companies considering doing business in these economies also will find that the examples of the issues that policymakers face, the different policy approaches that they choose, and the market opportunities that arise as more and more economies around the world embrace global electronic commerce.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Overview
9
Index
15
Internet Economics and the Economics of the Internet
21
Tables
22
Communications Systems
47
Financial Sector and Payment Systems
57
1
59
Opportunities and Challenges for Government and Policy
77
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1
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1
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Government in the International Arena
147
Coordinating and Regional Institutions
153
Expanding Role of the Private Sector
164
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167

Distribution and Delivery
69
Figures
71
Boxes
72
1 The distribution of languages 1999
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