India inequality report 2022: digital divide
The digital divide in the access and usage of ICTs and the internet has also led to an exclusionary consequence in three sectors of utmost significance: education, health and finance. In a country plagued
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
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World Risk Report 2022: Focus- Digitalization
The WorldRiskIndex 2022 assesses the disaster risk for 193 countries. This covers all UN-recognized countries and over 99 percent of the world's population. With this year's focus on digitalization, the
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Asian development outlook (ADO) 2022 update: entrepreneurship in the digital age
In this report, ADB has lowered its forecasts for economic growth in developing Asia and the Pacific to 4.3% in 2022 and 4.9% in 2023, amid mounting challenges. Its theme chapter looks at how digital entrepreneurship
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Special Economic Zones (Third Amendment) Rules, 2022
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 14th July 2022, has published the Special Economic Zones (Third Amendment) Rules, 2022 to further amend the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006. Through this amendment
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The digital divide and COVID-19: impact on the socioeconomic development in Asia and the Pacific
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global economic recession. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to every part of the world, governments released policies to restrict people`s socio-economic activities to
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Role of ICT dissemination and digital finance in poverty eradication and income inequality reduction: a sub-national level study from India
Information and Communication technology (ICT) can boost economic growth and at the same time can create digital divide. The present paper explores both direct impact of ICT dissemination and its indirect
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Gender-responsive digitalization: a critical component of the COVID-19 response in Africa
A new publication on the digital gender divide in Africa warns that while COVID-19 has caused a rapid proliferation of digital tools and services, women in rural communities in Africa are being left behind
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Advancing youth-centred digital ecosystems in Africa in a post-Covid-19 world
This publication is the first of two to explore the findings and insights from an online global consultation, held in July 2020, exploring young Africans’ use of digital technologies in different areas
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Inequality in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in East and North-East Asia and South-East Asia
This report examines inequalities in the access to and use of ICTs in ESCAP member States of East and North-East Asia as well as South-East Asia. It uses the classification and regression tree analysis
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Household social consumption on education in India: NSS 75th round (July 2017 – June 2018)
A survey on ‘Household Social Consumption: Education’ was conducted in NSS 75th round (July 2017-June 2018). A sample of 64,519 rural households from 8,097 villages and 49,238 urban households from 6,188