Ecommerce and Developing Nations

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last decade, economic and technological advances have created a period of intense globalization. The use of electronic commerce has been expected to spread rapidly around the world with the growth of the Internet; a single world market is emerging in which the opportunities for global business are unforeseeable. Noted as a killer application, researchers believe that the power of e-commerce will destroy old industries and recreate new ones; redefine new markets …

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