Estonia’s digital dividends
Digital technology dominates our everyday lives, and with each passing day, even more so. How can the global community benefit from the new digital era? The World Bank’s World Development Report2016...
View Article#GenderMatters: From digital divides to digital dividends
Eighty percent of the population in developing countries owns a mobile phone, but—according to the most recent report on the subject by the global association of mobile operators, GSMA—more than 1.7...
View ArticleDemography should guide policies in the world’s centers of poverty and fragility
What role could demographic policy play in the countries with the highest poverty rates and the lowest level of human development, which often also suffer most from conflict and violence? A crucial...
View ArticleGlobal economic prospects: sluggish emerging market activity to weigh on...
Global economic growth is projected to pick up modestly in 2016 to 2.9 percent after a disappointing 2015, the January 2016 Global Economic Prospects report says. Growth slowed last year to a 2.4...
View ArticleMyth or fact? New WDR examines the potential of digital technologies for...
Pop quiz: Which of these statements do you agree with? If you build “IT” they will come.Poor people don’t need mobile phones. They need clean water and food instead.Digital skills are only relevant...
View ArticleWhy have the digital revolution’s broader benefits fallen short for development?
The rapid spread of digital technologies has been a development success. But has it also resulted in successful development? No, not when the basic foundations of economic development are missing,...
View ArticleHow corruption hurts innovation is smaller firms
Firms invest in innovations if they expect future benefits from these investments. Patents and quality certificates are means for firms to claim such exclusive gains. However, obtain quality...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Prospects January 2016: Regional integration and spillovers
A key risk to global growth in 2016 is that a number of emerging markets slow simultaneously. Following a decade of deepening integration among emerging markets and developing countries, weakness in a...
View ArticleLive longer, work longer?
Imagine yourself on a comfy seat like the ones they give to ministers. But do not get too cozy as you are about to make a difficult decision. Population is aging in your country, and there simply is...
View ArticleIs Poverty Seasonal?
Many countries measure poverty using annualized survey data generated on the basis of a one-time “snapshot” of household consumption. Such designs gather information for a single period of reference of...
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