Modern Markets Policy for Transition or Unstable Economies

New marketplace technologies could create stabilizing economic infrastructure for even the most troubled nations. The key is creating concessions to incentivize companies that fund and run inclusive, state-of-the-art online markets in which anyone can sell anything if legal. For-profit bidders would be betting on their ability to upgrade economic activity over a concession period of, perhaps, 20 years.

A concession's winners would need to swiftly create universal infrastructure for micro-economic activity across any region. It comprises seamless markets for many hundreds of economic sectors (eg childcare, deliveries, freshly caught fish) and ancillary functions to fully support local buyers or sellers in any sector. Winners may also need to fund public access points for the system.

We call this utility POEMs (Public Official E-Markets). A competitive concession invites multinational consortia to define terms on which they would fund, build, and run the market platform. Their return: a percentage mark-up on the price paid intransactions.

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