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Regional gender gaps face policy conflict

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

Recession risks wider internet infrastructure gap

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

Weak long-run growth raises risks to the world economy

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Global GDP will grow by less this decade than the past unless there is a surprise uptick in productivity

The scope to increase global productivity is immense

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Global growth is picking up, but the lack of structural reform from 2007-17 is holding back countries across the world

Gender gap for mobile access may widen with COVID-19

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Rising mobile phone use has helped advance multiple development goals

Gender equality is a distant but achievable goal

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

Redistribution is key to the future of the workforce

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