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Infrastructure will shape African internet trends

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AFRICA

Internet use is expanding rapidly but infrastructure constraints will drive Africa along different paths to global peers

Inclusion and privacy policies may lag cashless growth

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INTERNATIONAL

Cashless spending is surging, giving customers and traders more flexibility and reducing ‘organisational’ costs

Emerging markets growing old faster than growing rich

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INT

Emerging markets are ageing at lower incomes than advanced markets, a policy challenge that will influence GDP prospects

Social cohesion is vital to promote long-run growth

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INT

Strong social and human capital can offset costs such as technologically stranded workers

Educating more women further will help Turkey develop

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TURKEY

Turkish women who have reached further education are highly employable but there are not nearly enough of them

Mexico's AMLO may be key to resolving caravan crisis

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MEXICO

A caravan of asylum seekers that left Honduras in October has sparked a wave of migration, and a crisis at the US border

Redistribution is key to the future of the workforce

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INT

Technology will raise productivity and living standards; redeployment rather than fear of unemployment must guide policy

Policy and technology are key to full financial access

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INT

Nearly 70% of all over-15s are ‘banked’; at least 76% of them have also made a digital transaction