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Pandemic deepens impact of global technological gaps

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INT

Although internet use is rising, serious access gaps persist across regions, gender and ethnic groups

Gender gap for mobile access may widen with COVID-19

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INT

Rising mobile phone use has helped advance multiple development goals

Development risks augur demographic nightmare in India

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INDIA

GDP growth and social spending are beginning to diverge again... Since 2011-12, fiscal consolidation has moved apace

Regional gender gaps face policy conflict

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INT

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have made gender equality a top priority, but progress is slow and uneven

Global gap will widen between aid needed and funded

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INTERNATIONAL

Aid budgets are being cut and priorities are shifting from humanitarian aid when it is needed more than ever

Inefficiency worsens inequality in Latin America

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LATIN AMERICA

Inefficient spending hampers efforts to reduce inequality in Latin America

Africa’s development may hinge on investment in people

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AFRICA

Rapid population growth is challenging African nations to create jobs for their swelling working-age populations

Gender equality is a distant but achievable goal

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INT

There has been a robust rise in women’s access to non-agrarian employment and top political offices

Recession risks wider internet infrastructure gap

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INT

Development actors want governments to make the internet more affordable, accessible and reliable; progress is uneven

Turkish birth rate will resist government policy

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TURKEY

Underlying Turkey’s slowing population growth in 2020 is a steady decline in both the crude birth and fertility rates