Member States of the West African Economic and Monetary Union eTrade Readiness Assessment
The global COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of digital solutions in facilitating access to essential goods and services. Several governments of developing countries have thus decided to speed up the implementation of reforms in electronic commerce in order to support their economies in better coping with the consequences of the crisis. This crisis has also highlighted the glaring disparities in access in terms of means, practices and opportunities related to electronic commerce, both at the global level between countries with different levels of economic development, and at the national and regional level between different population groups within the same economy.
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