On some trends in the world economy in the era of digital globalization

  • Sergey Mihnevich World Economy Center of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus
Keywords: globalization, digital economy, Agreement on Information Technology, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, international trade

Abstract

The article considers the crucial impact of innovative achievements in the field of information technology on the development of the global digital economy.
Digitization of the world economy is shaping trends in branch and sectoral development, as well as world trade. The paper focuses on the essence of the ongoing changes, the directions of the vectors of economic development in the context of a changing digital space. The author pays special attention to the functioning of new business models, in particular, digital platforms, transformation of the structure, configuration, forms and methods of international trade, the impact of happening processes on competitiveness. An important place in the article is given to the problems of e-commerce, the content of the ongoing processes in this segment of economic relations. Some approaches to solving of digitalization’s problems of the national economy are suggested.

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Author Biography

Sergey Mihnevich , World Economy Center of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus

doctor of Economics, head of the World Economy Center of the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus

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Published
2019-04-30
How to Cite
Mihnevich S. (2019). On some trends in the world economy in the era of digital globalization. Trade Policy, 1(17), 120-140. Retrieved from https://tpjournal.hse.ru/article/view/10137
Section
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes О33