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The Impact of Data Localisation on India’s Economy
As the global economy grows increasingly digital, businesses rely on the free flow of data across borders to efficiently sell, produce and deliver...
The Impact of Data Localisation on China’s Economy
As the global economy grows increasingly digital, businesses rely on the free flow of data across borders to efficiently sell, produce and deliver...
The Economic Impact of Marco Civil da Internet in Brazil
As the global economy grows increasingly digital, businesses rely on the free flow of data across borders to efficiently sell, produce and deliver...
OECD BEPS: Reconciling Global Trade, Taxation Principles and the Digital Economy
Following media reports on the low tax rates paid by some of the world’s largest multinationals, international tax reform has moved to the top of...
The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on Economic Recovery
This paper aims to quantify the losses that result from data localisation requirements and related data privacy and security laws that discriminate...
Nowhere To Go? Surveillance, Privacy Rules and Trade Talks
This policy brief outlines the chronology of the developments since Edward Snowden leaked the documents on large-scale electronic surveillance,...
A Multilateral Legal Assistance Protocol: Preventing Fragmentation and Re-territorialisation of the Internet
Ineffectual legal-assistance cooperation increasingly prompts governments to apply laws extraterritorially or to force data localisation, with dire...
Is E-commerce Really the Threat to European Way of Life – or did Domestic Populism Trump the Single Market?
Last week, France introduced a controversial law specifically designed to cripple Amazon to support physical bookstores. Italy is about to force...
Who’s Afraid of China’s High-tech Challenge?
Over the last 30 years, the speed and scale of China’s economic rise have stunned the world. Now its government has mapped out bold plans for the...
Can Europe Overcome its Conservatism? – Future of Europe from a Japanese Perspective
The agenda of the recent European Summit shows that the discussion is no longer dedicated entirely to the Euro crisis, and the efforts to stabilise...