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Promoting open and inclusive connectivity : the case for digital development cooperation
Okano-Heijmans, Maaike; Vosse, Wilhelm M. - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-10
A focus on digital development cooperation as a cornerstone in Europe’s digital connectivity agenda offers opportunities to act on long-term challenges and addresses several key priorities identified by the European Commission in third countries. This article develops an argument for...
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Digital reboot : the case for a newly invigorated aid for digital trade initiative
Lacey, Simon - 2021
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Rwanda Economic Update, January 2020 : Accelerating Digital Transformation in Rwanda
World Bank Group - 2020
This edition's forecast of Rwanda's economic growth for 2019 is revised upward from the 7.8 percent projected in the … concessional financing will help keep Rwanda's debt sustainable. In the medium term, the CAD will again stay high, hitting 10 … continuing pressures on the exchange rate and reserves, the policy space has narrowed. The risks to Rwanda's economic outlook …
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Creative industries in Rwanda : digital paths to global markets
International Trade Centre - 2019
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Seeking for the shift towards challenge-oriented innovation policies : tracing digitalization policies over two decades in Africa
Otioma, Chuks; Nsanzumuhire, Silas U.; Grillitsch, Markus; … - 2023
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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
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Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers : evidence from COVID-19
Jones, Sam; Manhique, Ivan - 2022
Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers). Based on the universe of records from a matching...
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In Vietnam, Digital is Democratizing
Nguyen, Pham-Muoi - 2016
When Vietnam laid the first infrastructure foundation for the Internet in 1997, the state had not foreseen the impacts …
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Factors affecting the sustainability of telecentres in the developing country
Thai Do Manh; Duong, Dang; Falch, Morten; Chung Bui Xuan; … - 2021
gap. We conducted a case study in Vietnam by using both qualitative and quantitative data. We used the Kumar and Best …'s (2006) model as our theoretical lens to analyse the sustainability of telecentres in Vietnam. The paper finds that …
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