Global Electronic Commerce : A Policy Primer

A Policy Primer

By: Catherine Mann, Sue Eckert, Sarah Cleeland Knight

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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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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Acronyms	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Overview and Economics of Electronic Commerce
Overview	p. 9
What Is Electronic Commerce?	p. 9
How Fast Are Growth and Diffusion?	p. 11
Final Remarks	p. 18
Internet Economics and the Economics of the Internet	p. 21
Macroeconomic Implications of Information Technologies	p. 21
A "New Economics"?	p. 26
Policy Implications of Internet Economics	p. 31
The Human Factor, the Institutional Factor, and the Pace of Technology	p. 41
Electronic Commerce Infrastructures
Infrastructure: Communications Systems	p. 47
The Current Environment	p. 48
Privatization, Competition, and Regulation	p. 50
Convergence and Interoperability	p. 52
Conclusion	p. 55
Infrastructure: Financial Sector and Payment Systems	p. 57
Finance, Development, and Electronic Commerce	p. 58
Electronic Banking and Financial Services	p. 59
Payment Vehicles and Security	p. 61
Issues for the Monetary Foundation of the Economy	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 67
Infrastructure: Distribution and Delivery	p. 69
Why Distribution and Delivery Are Important?	p. 70
Policy Changes for Distribution and Delivery	p. 73
Digital Delivery	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 75
Opportunities and Challenges for Government and Policy
Government Operations: Tax Regimes and Administration and Services	p. 81
Issues of Taxation and Tariffs	p. 81
Government Administration	p. 96
Government and the Environment of Certainty and Trust	p. 103
Legal Framework	p. 104
Standards	p. 115
Intellectual Property	p. 117
Trusted Environment	p. 121
Content	p. 138
Government in the International Arena	p. 143
Functional Institutions	p. 145
Coordinating and Regional Institutions	p. 153
New Collaborative Groups	p. 158
Expanding Role of the Private Sector	p. 164
Improving the International Environment for Electronic Commerce	p. 166
Government and Development: The Digital Divide	p. 173
The Digital Divide: Rapid, but Uneven, Spread of the Internet	p. 174
Is Government Intervention Needed?	p. 178
Building Capabilities	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 188
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 189
Prerequisites	p. 189
Policymaking in an Environment of Rapid Technological Change	p. 191
Policymaking in the Global Environment of Overlapping Jurisdiction	p. 192
References	p. 195
Index	p. 201
Tables
Contributions to labor productivity growth in the nonfarm business sector in the United States, 1974-99	p. 22
Business-to-business cost savings by industry	p. 24
The macroeconomic impact of electronic commerce	p. 24
Projected benefits to users from competitive telecom services in 2010, and cumulative gains, 1997-2010	p. 49
International organizations addressing e-commerce issues	p. 144
Distribution of Internet users as a percentage of regional population	p. 175
Figures
Exponential growth of the Internet	p. 13
Growing Internet connections	p. 14
Internet users by region	p. 15
Internet users by region in Latin America	p. 16
Income and Internet penetration	p. 18
Internet monthly access process for 20 hours of off-peak use, selected economies	p. 49
The growing importance of Internet telephony	p. 54
US consumers' preferred online payment methods	p. 62
Distribution of leading Internet applications in the global freight transport market	p. 72
Internet use in freight transport by region based on application count	p. 73
The distribution of languages, 1999	p. 176
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