Electronic Commerce for Development

Lagging information technology infrastructure can handicap emerging countries subjecting them to de facto trade discrimination in the world marketplace - but closing the gap will not be easy. In this collection of essays, renowned authors from various disciplines have drawn on supply chain analysis and industry studies to elucidate how NICT - new information and communications technologies - like mobile telephony and the Internet have been affecting low-income communities and small entrepreneurs from Bangladesh to South Africa. The general conclusion is sobering. NICT is no panacea for low pro

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Year of publication:	2002
Institutions:	OECD (contributor)
Publisher:	Paris : OECD Publishing and OECD Development Centre
Subject:	Electronic Commerce \| E-commerce \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (205 p.)
Series:	Development Centre Studies
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; Preface; An Introduction to the Debate on Electronic Commerce and Development; PART ONE INTERNET AND THE ORGANISATION OF GLOBAL MARKETS; Chapter 1 The Evolution of Global Value Chains in the Internet Era; Chapter 2 E-Commerce for Development: A General Framework; Chapter 3 E-Commerce for Development: Between Seylla and Charybdis; PART TWO SECTORAL ANALYSES; Chapter 4 The Prospects and Challenges of E-Business for the South African Automotive Components Sector: Preliminary Findings from Two Benchmarking Clubs Chapter 5 Local Entrepreneurship in the Era of E-business: Early Evidence from the Indian Automobile IndustryChapter 6 The World's First Internet Coffee Auction: Design, Implementation and Lessons Learned; PART THREE COUNTRY EXPERIENCE AND LOCAL EXPERIMENTS; Chapter 7 The Micro-Foundations of E-Commerce: Informational-Focused Development in Andbra Pradesh, India; Chapter 8 Cellular Phone in Rural Bangladesh: A Study of the Village Pay Phone of Grameen Bank; Chapter 9 Local Content Creation and E-Commerce: A South African Perspective; List of Participants; Conference Agenda;
ISBN:	978-92-64-09954-8 ; 978-92-64-09956-2 ; 978-92-64-09956-2
Other identifiers:	10.1787/9789264099562-en [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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