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9780881322743

Global Electronic Commerce

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  • ISBN13:

    9780881322743

  • ISBN10:

    0881322741

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Peterson Inst for Intl Economics

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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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