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Digital Dividends – A Global Perspective

The World Development Report 2016 titled 'Digital Dividends' assesses the interplay of digital technology (mobile phones, internet and related technologies) with development

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Digital India Still Elusive, World Bank Report Shows

It is an amazing transformation that today 40 percent of the world's population is connected by the internet. While these achievements are to be celebrated, this is also occasion to be mindful that we do not create a new underclass. With nearly 20 percent of the world's population unable to read and write, the spread of digital technologies alone is unlikely to spell the end of the global knowledge divide - Kaushik Basu, World Bank Chief Economist

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A Recipe For Disaster

It’s globalisation without governance that has allowed the world’s elite to park their riches in tax havens as Panama Papers show

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SDGs And Inequality

The SDGs are much bolder and more aspirational and differ from the Millennium Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted in 2000 for the period 2000-2015

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Sustaining Development

Enlightened self-interest requires that the private sector must no longer shirk its responsibility with regard to the community or to the environment which sustains them

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