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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