E-commerce
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- Promoting women’s entrepreneurship and e-business development
- ( United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2007)
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This document explores the potential for women in entrepreneurship and e-business in the niche area of green or “organic” cooperatives. It seeks to promote women’s entrepreneurshi...
- Text me ten Pesos: mobile banking in rural Phillipines
- ( J. Owens;C. Balingit / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2007)
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With just one text message rural Filipinos can now withdraw and use their money without having to travel to the bank branch. This concise article discusses an innovative project that uses mobile ph...
- Mobile-phone commerce innovation in the Philippines
- ( S. Mendes;E. Alampay;E. Soriano;C. Soriano / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2007)
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The Philippines are a leader in the use of mobile telephones for access to a range of services from m-Banking to m-Education and m-Governance. The Phillipines experience shows that i...
- Improving the postal sector is key for SME development
- ( P. Donohue;M. Boillat / UNCTAD XI , 2007)
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SMEs are a key component of any countries economy yet they are struggling to sell products beyond their national borders. This is due to reasons such as perceived insecurity of trans-border transac...
- Women and ICTs in Asia
- ( United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2006)
- How can we ensure that women have equitable access to the benefits and opportunities made possible by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and how can ICTs be leveraged for women’s empowe...
- Expanding the market to the bottom of the economic pyramid can alleviate poverty
- ( C.K. Prahalad; A. Hammond / World Resources Institute, Washington DC , 2002)
- This article, from the World Resources Institute, considers how the global market system could be expanded to provide direct benefits and opportunity to poor communities. There are nearly 4 billion pe...
- Government support for ICTs and SMEs in Southern Asia
- ( Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program , 2005)
- This briefing paper highlights three main ways ICTs can benefit SMEs: increase productivity in the production processincrease efficiency of internal business operationsconnect SMEs mor...
- New method for measuring national ICT penetration
- ( M. Minges / International Telecommunication Union , 2005)
- There are many different indices which rank the world's countries according to their level of ICT penetration or their ‘e-readiness’, but there is no agreement on what indicators to include or what me...
- Benefits of ecommerce in South Africa
- ( A. Molla / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester , 2005)
- This paper attempts to explore the real benefits of e-commerce based on data from 92 businesses in South Africa. The findings indicate that e-commerce benefits are by and large limited to improving in...
- E-commerce for development is over-hyped
- ( John Humphrey;Robin Mansell;Daniel Paré;Hubert Schmitz / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2003)
- Promotion of e-readiness is all the rage. Internet-based business to business (B2B) applications are promoted as tools to enable producer firms in developing countries to reduce costs and enter global...
