Digital Economy, E-money and Developing Countries

 By : Dureid DERGHAM (A)

ABSTRACT

Electronic Commerce and Information technology are the principal components of the new era called digital (or new) economy. E-commerce presents a myriad of characteristics and push countries to invest in this domain which seems to be very attractive.
This paper wonder whether e-commerce presents a good perspective for developing countries. More precisely, it is an attempt to diagnose Syrian case. Therefore, we treat the subject within two principal axes:

  • What is the real advantages of adopting e-commerce in developing environment? Would it be an instrument to vehicle easily foreign products inside national market more? What is our real needs in e-commerce system?
  • Knowing that adopting e-commerce suppose the intervention of electronic payment systems, are they secures? What could be the implicit threats of those systems or of the digital money on the monetary policy?

WTO took off fiscal instruments from governments. Now, we are preoccupied with the future. E-money could withdraw monetary instrument also!

 


(A)

PHD Economic Sciences from Paris. Lecturer and researcher at High Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology; Lecturer in Faculty of Economy in Damascus University. Back to top