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Urgent reforms on broadband policy would hasten the digital transformation the Philippines needs to achieve its goal of becoming a prosperous middle-class society by 2040.
Beyond brick and mortar: Key lessons learned on the impact of infrastructure on economic development
A new paper that synthesizes over 300 studies over 40 years is one of the most significant attempts to date to understand the impact of infrastructure on development outcomes. With some caveats,…
Universal, affordable, and reliable Internet connectivity is a key ingredient for inclusive recovery
About three-quarters of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean uses the Internet. The World Bank studies 24 countries in the region and provides three main findings on household digital…
Providing internet access with reliability, affordability, and speed is essential to bringing more equitable impacts to vulnerable communities.
ecosystems, food systems, East Asia and Pacific, pandemic, climate change, COVID-19
the World Bank has analyzed El Salvador’s telecommunication network to understand to what extent the national health care system could leverage the existing digital infrastructure and develop e-…
This blog examines the effectiveness of collecting data on sensitive topics and in hard-to-reach settings through two remote survey methods.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens the uneven recovery of East Asia and Pacific. The invasion comes on top of the economic distress caused by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the financial…
As Vietnam’s economic success in the last decades has improved lives for most, the challenge of including ethnic minority populations from remote and mountainous areas in the benefits of growth…
The dividends associated with the rapid digitalization of the Vietnamese economy are highly dependent on whether the labor market can adapt.