A man in Colombo, Sri Lanka, uses his mobile phone. Beijing is actively exporting its internet successes, empowering businesses to transact online through the same tools developed in China. Photo: Reuters
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How China’s e-commerce playbook can help emerging economies transform
- Emerging markets, like China’s, have the advantage of a sizeable young population that is highly adaptable, if not already at home in the mobile digital era. Better yet, by learning from US tech leaders, emerging markets will have the best of both worlds
A man in Colombo, Sri Lanka, uses his mobile phone. Beijing is actively exporting its internet successes, empowering businesses to transact online through the same tools developed in China. Photo: Reuters
