Sharing is Caring? Not Quite : Some Observations about ‘The Sharing Economy’

van Welsum, Desiré ; e

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: service economy;    economic growth;    digital divide;    digital economy;   

RP-ID  :  102963

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Fast evolving cloud-computing platforms that enable new business models, combined with a rapiduptake in digital technologies by consumers and a change in consumer behavior and preferenceshave enabled the emergence of a so-called ‘sharing economy’. With new start-ups offering allkinds of services springing up every day, there was soon talk of the ‘Uber of everything’ or ‘theuberification of the service economy.’ But these technology enabled business modelsalso raise a number of questions, such as what are we really sharing in the ‘sharing’ economy, whoparticipates in it, who benefits from it, what are the barriers and the risks, and does it offer growthopportunities for developing countries?