Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/224801 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 16-175
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of International Development, London
Abstract: 
The global economy is undergoing a digital shift that is likely to intensify with rapid growth in digital trade and digital-based restructuring of economic sectors. While trade in "traditional" goods and services is subject to enforceable rules through multiple agreements, key areas relevant to the digital economy are weakly regulated. This has provided policy space for latecomer economies to implement what we call digital industrial policy. Through denying market access, data localization, and technology transfers, some of the digital industrial policy tools represent a threat to US firms that dominated the digital world and to the position of the US economy as a global digital leader. Consequently, underpinned by growing political power of Silicon Valley, the US adopted the "digital trade agenda" in its trade policy particularly in the so-called 21st century trade agreements; the TPP and TTIP. This trade agenda is likely to expand in the future and will have important implications on digital and economic development.
Subjects: 
Digital industrial policy
Trans-pacific partnership
data localization
the digital trade agenda
Silicon Valley
digital catching-up
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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