There is much talk about paperless international trade. Denmark-based Nordea's head of trade finance, Claus Asbjørn Stehr, discusses, among other things, with Ravi Mehta, whether paperless trade is a need or just a high-tech fashion, and whether paperless trade can accelerate economic development in low-income countries, some of which may be facing the problem of paper shortage.

Published in GTR Vol 3/Issue , July/August 2005

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