The Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ): Putting Malaysia’s SMEs onto the Digital Silk Road
Yean, Tham Siew | March 2018
Abstract
This article examines how the DFTZ will enhance SME export opportunities and the outstanding challenges that SMEs face in entering the export market through an ecommerce platform.
Citation
Yean, Tham Siew. 2018. The Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ): Putting Malaysia’s SMEs onto the Digital Silk Road. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8137.ISSN
2335-6677
Keywords
Telecommunication Companies
Rural Rehabilitation
Biotechnology
Interindustry Trade
Industrial Policy
Industrial Investment
Industrial Development
Small Scale Industry
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