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Lack of digital skills dampens Latin America's outlook

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LATIN AMERICA

Evidence increasingly indicates that the region’s limited progress in the digital economy is caused less by poor connectivity than by the lack of digital skills among its…

Indonesia's structural gaps impede its digital economy

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INDONESIA

About 150 million people (55% of the population) are already online, and three-quarters of them access the internet via smart feature phones or smartphones. Some pandemic-related…

Digital divides impede 'edtech' in developing world

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INT

While access to schools has expanded in low- and middle-income countries in recent decades, learning outcomes have not seen a corresponding improvement. The onset of school…

Technology delivers mixed development gains in Africa

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AFRICA

However, early hopes that digital technology would rapidly overcome the continent’s infrastructural weaknesses and enable governments to achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development…

South-east Asia’s edtech sector will mature unevenly

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

This has stretched -- but also stimulated -- the emerging edtech sector in the region, and uncovered the many challenges the sector faces in the long term.

Growth of AI faces stiff challenges in Latin America

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LATIN AMERICA

As AI systems become increasingly central to the global economy, this poor performance risks further damaging the economic prospects of a region that has long struggled to achieve…

Hype around Indian edtech boom will settle

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INDIA

While the shift to online education has worsened the problems of unequal access and uneven quality, the pandemic has forced schools to adjust and students to accept long periods…

ASEAN electronics industry competition will grow

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ASEAN

Electronics and ICT investment outlook in ASEAN states.

Productivity growth is key to UK economic prospects

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UNITED KINGDOM

Real wages are now falling at a record pace and the economy is close to recession. While some of the determining factors of the current low-growth, high-inflation environment are…

Uneven e-government will hinder South-east Asia trade

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ASEAN

E-government systems in ASEAN member states.