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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.

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CONTENTS

Preface = ⅸ

Acknowledgments = xiii

Acronyms = xiv

Introduction = 1

Ⅰ Overview and Economics of Electronic Commerce

 1 Overview = 9

  What Is Electronic Commerce? = 9

  How Fast Are Growth and Diffusion? = 11

  Final Remarks = 18

 2 Internet Economics and the Economics of the Internet = 21

  Macroeconomic Implications of Information Technologies = 21

  A "New Economics"? = 26

  Policy Implications of Internet Economics = 31

  The Human Factor, the Institutional Factor, and the Pace of Technology = 41

Ⅱ Electronic Commerce Infrastructures

 3 Infrastructures : Communications Systems = 47

  The Current Environment = 48

  Privatization, Competition, and Regulation = 50

  Convergence and Interoperability = 52

  Conclusion = 55

 4 Infrastructures : Financial Sector and Payment Systems = 57

  Finance, Development, and Electronic Commerce = 58

  Electronic Banking and Financial Services = 59

  Payment Vehicles and Security = 61

  Issues for the Monetary Foundation of the Economy = 65

  Conclusion = 67

 5 Infrastructure : Distribution and Delivery = 69

  Why Distribution and Delivery Are Important? = 70

  Policy Changes for Distribution and Delivery = 73

  Digital Delivery = 75

  Conclusion = 75

Ⅲ Opportunities and Challenges for Government and Policy

 6 Governmmnt Operations : Tax Regimes and Administration and Services = 81

  Issues of Taxation and Tariffs = 81

  Government Administration = 96

 7 Government and the Environment of Certainty and Trust = 103

  Legal Framework = 104

  Standards = 115

  Intellectual Property = 117

  Trusted Environment = 121

  Content = 138

 8 Government in the International Arena = 143

  Functional Institutions = 145

  Coordinating and Regional Institutions = 153

  New Collaborative Groups = 158

  Expanding Role of the Private Sector = 164

  Improving the International Environment for Electronic Commerce = 166

 9 Government ant Development : The Digital Divide = 173

  The Digital Divide : Rapid, but Uneven, Spread of the Internet = 174

  Is Government Intervention Needed? = 178

  Building Capabilities = 179

  Conclusion = 188

 10 Conclusions and Recommendations = 189

  Prerequisites = 189

  Policymaking in an Environment of Rapid Technological Change = 191

  Policymaking in the Global Environment of Overlapping Jurisdiction = 192

References = 195

Index = 201