Global value chains of digital economy in the Indo-Pacific: challenges and opportunities

Abstract

The digital economy is guiding cross-border business connectivity, market mechanisms, investments, business incubation, and digital public infrastructure cooperation. In the digital economy ecology, developing economies in the Indo-Pacific need to exchange and cooperate, and synergise their human resource capacities and infrastructure.ERIA and Leiden University have collaborated in a curated study on the inclusive and cooperative digital economy in the Indo-Pacific, Asia, and Europe. This study focuses on two questions: What are the challenges facing the developing and emerging economies of the Indo-Pacific? What preparation are they making for participating in the supply chains of the digital economy?

Executive Summary (pp. vi-xiii)