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Dec 5, 2024 | 
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kati Suominen |Finnish Museum |Niclas R. Fritzén |Mari Aas Fjelldal
Introduction Organisms inhabiting high latitudes confront challenges associated with pronounced seasonality, featuring long and cold winters with limited food resources, contrasted by brief summer seasons. These provide a constrained timeframe for reproductive activities and preparations for the ensuing prolonged and harsh winter.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
csis.org | Kati Suominen
IntroductionDigital payments are a critical on-ramp for people around the world to access increasingly digitized public and private services. In many countries, digital payment use has expanded rapidly over the past decade—especially in the wake of Covid-19—as consumers and businesses have migrated online and grown used to the convenience, speed, security, and transparency of paying digitally.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
csis.org | Kati Suominen |Scholl Chair
Digital payments are a critical on-ramp for people around the world to access the increasingly digitized public and private services. In many countries, digital payment use has expanded rapidly over the past decade, especially in the wake of Covid-19, as consumers and businesses have migrated online and grown accustomed to the convenience, speed, security, and transparency of paying digitally.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
csis.org | Kati Suominen |Scholl Chair
After the withdrawal of a digital antitrust bill in South Korea earlier this year, digital competition policy discussion is heating up again in Seoul with a proposed Online Platform Antitrust Regulation Act. Proposed in July by National Assembly representative Kim Nam-geun, this bill could be detrimental to the competition it seeks to encourage.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Karl P Sauvant |Kati Suominen |Shiro Armstrong |Karl Gading Sayudha
In May 2024, Indonesia became the third Southeast Asian country to license Starlink operations, following the Philippines and Malaysia. In early June 2024, Indonesian Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia announced that Elon Musk’s Starlink had invested approximately IDR 30 billion (US$1.8 million) in Indonesia. No details have been provided on how the investment will be utilised, aside from it being an initial investment fund provided by the company when it began operations in the country.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Karl P Sauvant |Tawanda Sachikonye |Kati Suominen |Rahul Jaybhay
At the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, 125 members—three-quarters of the WTO’s membership—cosponsored a request to integrate a new Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFDA) into the WTO’s rulebook. Of these sponsors, 89 were developing countries, including 27 least-developed countries. The IFDA is a plurilateral agreement and open to all WTO members but is binding only on its participants.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Tawanda Sachikonye |Kati Suominen |Yasuo Takao |Ashima Goyal
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s May 2024 state visit to Brazil highlights not only the importance Japan places on a constructive as well as impactful partnership with Latin America’s largest economy, but also underscores Japan’s prioritisation of its nascent Global South engagement policy. Japanese policymakers increasingly view Brazil as a possible strategic partner in safeguarding an international rules-based order.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Kati Suominen |John Deighton |Leora Kornfeld |Ashima Goyal
Trade costs have fallen globally in the past 200 years on the back of reductions in tariffs and non-tariff barriers, trade facilitation initiatives and lower transport and communications costs. This has facilitated the rise of regional and global supply chains that have enabled companies, even in poorer East Asian countries, tosupply large multinationals, increase sales and drive economic growth and development.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
csis.org | Kati Suominen
The EU’s Digital Market Act (DMA) has become the default in digital competition policy, with many other countries following suit in implementing or exploring similar domestic legislation. The act requires large digital service providers, defined as “gatekeepers,” to abide by ex-ante competition rules that preempt anticompetitive behavior.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
csis.org | Kati Suominen
IntroductionIn recent years, there has been growing discussion about digital public infrastructure (DPI)—systems such as digital identity systems, alternative payment methods, and data exchanges that are backed by governments through ownership, operation, or direct or indirect control or support. DPIs are often aimed to promote financial inclusion across a society.
