Development trends of cross-border e-commerce In Kazakhstan

Abstract

Today the global world is characterized by active development and widespread penetration of information and communication technologies in various spheres of life. This trend has also influenced the ways and formats of doing business: today e-commerce is already actively developing, which has provided new development prospects for business in the form of savings on transaction costs, the possibility of access to global markets without the need to be present on the spot, etc. The purpose of this article is to expand the coverage of balance of payments statistics on certain types of foreign economic transactions of individuals, to improve the quality and reliability of external sector statistics. The article presents trends in the development of cross-border electronic commerce and approaches to estimating its volumes in the balance of payments indicators.