Global Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce is changing the way businesses and consumers create, sell, and buy products and the way they communicate and learn. This primer addresses the needs of the policy makers in emerging markets who must formulate and refine policies that affect e-commerce in areas such as telecommunications, finance, taxation, privacy, and international trade and domestic distribution.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Acronyms

xiv

Introduction

1

(8)

I Overview and Economics of Electronic Commerce

Overview

9

(12)

What Is Electronic Commerce?

9

(2)

How Fast Are Growth and Diffusion?

11

(7)

Final Remarks

18

(3)

Internet Economics and the Economics of the Internet

21

(26)

Macroeconomic Implications of Information Technologies

21

(5)

A ``New Economics''?

26

(5)

Policy Implications of Internet Economics

31

(10)

The Human Factor, the Institutional Factor, and the Pace of Technology

41

(6)

II Electronic Commerce Infrastructures

Infrastructure: Communications Systems

47

(10)

The Current Environment

48

(2)

Privatization, Competition, and Regulation

50

(2)

Convergence and Interoperability

52

(3)

Conclusion

55

(2)

Infrastructure: Financial Sector and Payment Systems

57

(12)

Finance, Development, and Electronic Commerce

58

(1)

Electronic Banking and Financial Services

59

(2)

Payment Vehicles and Security

61

(4)

Issues for the Monetary Foundation of the Economy

65

(2)

Conclusion

67

(2)

Infrastructure: Distribution and Delivery

69

(12)

Why Distribution and Delivery Are Important?

70

(3)

Policy Changes for Distribution and Delivery

73

(2)

Digital Delivery

75

(1)

Conclusion

75

(6)

III Opportunities and Challenges for Government and Policy

Government Operations: Tax Regimes and Administration and Services

81

(22)

Issues of Taxation and Tariffs

81

(15)

Government Administration

96

(7)

Government and the Environment of Certainty and Trust

103

(40)

Legal Framework

104

(11)

Standards

115

(2)

Intellectual Property

117

(4)

Trusted Environment

121

(17)

Content

138

(5)

Government in the International Arena

143

(30)

Functional Institutions

145

(8)

Coordinating and Regional Institutions

153

(5)

New Collaborative Groups

158

(6)

Expanding Role of the Private Sector

164

(2)

Improving the International Environment for Electronic Commerce

166

(7)

Government and Development: The Digital Divide

173

(16)

The Digital Divide: Rapid, but Uneven, Spread of the Internet

174

(4)

Is Government Intervention Needed?

178

(1)

Building Capabilities

179

(9)

Conclusion

188

(1)

Conclusions and Recommendations

189

(6)

Prerequisites

189

(2)

Policymaking in an Environment of Rapid Technological Change

191

(1)

Policymaking in the Global Environment of Overlapping Jurisdiction

192

(3)

References

195

(6)

Index

201

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Global Electronic Commerce

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