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Facilitating Trade and Logistics for E-Commerce: Building Blocks, Challenges, and Ways Forward

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dc.contributor.authorHuria, Ankur
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-14T16:55:07Z
dc.date.available2020-01-14T16:55:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.description.abstractThe objective of this note is to identify the key issues in trade facilitation and logistics that affect the e-commerce landscape, with a focus on cross border (trade facilitation) domestic delivery (logistics); highlight key challenges and opportunities, particularly for developing countries and small and medium enterprises (SMEs); and provide a roadmap for potential areas of World Bank (WB) support in that landscape. This work has broadly covered areas such as customs and border management; information and communications technology for trade; logistics services, including competition issues; and trade-related infrastructure (ports, inland ports, airports, and so on). This note identifies the various issues and challenges relating to e-commerce from a facilitation and logistics point of view and identifies potential solutions, particularly those in which the WBG can play a role in helping developing countries. The note draws from a wide array of developments and literature and from work done by the WBG more generally in trade facilitation and logistics in assisting countries to improve their trade environment. The note explores the required building blocks for facilitating cross-border e-commerce as to address the challenges raised and consist of: (a) improvement programs for creating a more conducive legal environment for automation; (b) improving automation and interconnectivity between agencies; (c) implementing simplified procedures to trade, including for e-commerce; and (d) implementing fully the World Trade Organizations (WTO’s) trade facilitation agreement. The note concludes with the summation that e-commerce offers new challenges and opportunities for governments and firms, but to maximize its benefits requires significant reform. This note has set out a path for countries to continuing the reform and modernization route with recommendations and an action matrix of specific improvements to the trade facilitation and logistics environment that will better position countries and firms to take advantage of the enormous potential that cross border e-commerce offers.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/645791578285992456/Facilitating-Trade-and-Logistics-for-E-Commerce-Building-Blocks-Challenges-and-Ways-Forward
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/33174
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33174
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectTRADE FACILITATION
dc.subjectE-COMMERCE
dc.subjectTRADE LOGISTICS
dc.subjectBUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectCONNECTIVITY
dc.subjectDATA PRIVACY
dc.subjectDATA PROTECTION
dc.subjectELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
dc.subjectDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectREGIONAL INTEGRATION
dc.titleFacilitating Trade and Logistics for E-Commerceen
dc.title.subtitleBuilding Blocks, Challenges, and Ways Forwarden
dc.typeReporten
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okr.crossref.titleFacilitating Trade and Logistics for E-Commerce
okr.date.disclosure2020-01-05
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/645791578285992456/Facilitating-Trade-and-Logistics-for-E-Commerce-Building-Blocks-Challenges-and-Ways-Forward
okr.guid645791578285992456
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/33174
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b08749f137_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31681836
okr.identifier.report144830
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/645791578285992456/pdf/Facilitating-Trade-and-Logistics-for-E-Commerce-Building-Blocks-Challenges-and-Ways-Forward.pdfen
okr.topicTransport::Transport and Trade Logistics
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Economics
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Information Security & Privacy
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade Facilitation
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Trade and Services
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::E-Commerce
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