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SABER-Tertiary Education is a diagnostic tool to assess how education systems perform and to identify priorities for reforms at the national level. It is part of the World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), which aims to benchmark education systems at the country...
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This report investigates the case of a Korean public-private matching grant program called the Tech Incubator Program for Startup (TIPS). Launched in 2013, the program provides a package of support to selected startups, including matching grant for research and development (R and D) and...
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cost-effective achievement of the highest possible ambition. Given the speed with which information technology, system …
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This report examines three interrelated issues - digital connectivity, digital entrepreneurship, and taxation of digital platforms - that are closely aligned with Malaysia's goal of becoming the e-commerce hub of the region. By leveraging the internet, smartphones, Big Data, the internet of...
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Digital technologies have significant potential to improve efficiency, equity, and environmental sustainability in the food system. A range of digital technologies are already leading to: better informed and engaged consumers and producers, smarter farms, and improved public services. Adoption...
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This note analyzes the evolution of Credit Information Systems, including the emergence of new technologies that use alternative data in credit decisioning and the opportunities and risks associated with these trends. This paper also predicts the potential development effect of these disruptive...
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This report examines Ukraine's economic decline and development through the lens of technology upgrading. The … technology upgrading framework assumes that economic growth is a function of technology capability, whereby upgrading occurs … through technological, industrial, and organizational change. This technology upgrading framework is applied to analyze the …
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use of digital technologies. In the private sector, digital technology can change the way economies of scale are achieved …
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, and technology hubs, amongst others, numbering more than 400 across Africa today. The digital economy in Africa is …
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technology (fintech) companies currently operating in SSA, only 5 percent have scaled. In this context, the WBG has undertaken …
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