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How can technology and digital tools help close the inequality gap globally?
US-China tech tensions: the impact on the global digital landscape
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US-China tech tensions: the impact on the global digital landscape

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The Graphic Truth: The digital payment boom

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Remittances We’re Watching: OFW superheroes, Central America flows, Ukraine war

Critical lifeline: remittances and the developing world
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Critical lifeline: remittances and the developing world

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Empowering small businesses in the digital age
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Empowering small businesses in the digital age

Ukraine’s digital lifeline: Diia
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Ukraine’s digital lifeline: Diia

USAID's chief innovation officer Mohamed Abdel-Kader sheds light on Ukraine's groundbreaking eServices platform known as Diia. This platform, he emphasized, has significantly strengthened the connection between the government and its citizens—a vital development for Ukraine, particularly amid the ongoing brutal war with Russia.

How digitization is accelerating international trade
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How digitization is accelerating international trade

How did the pandemic facilitate cross-border trade? It certainly helped move things along more efficiently in two ways, Nextrade Group founder and CEO Kati Suominen says during a livestream conversation on closing the global digital gap hosted by GZERO in partnership with Visa.

The weaknesses of a digital economy
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The weaknesses of a digital economy

Is there any downside to going cashless? Not really, but there are challenges, Usman Ahmed, head of Global Public Affairs and Strategic Research at PayPal, says during a livestream conversation on closing the global digital gap hosted by GZERO in partnership with Visa.

The debilitating cost of remittances
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The debilitating cost of remittances

Dilip Ratha knows how hard it is to work abroad and send money home. Why? Because he had to go through the same hoops when he was a migrant. It's the inconvenience and the cost, the World Bank's head of KNOMAD and lead economist says during a livestream conversation on closing the global digital gap hosted by GZERO in partnership with Visa.

Political unrest when governments fail struggling citizens
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Political unrest when governments fail struggling citizens

What happens when 1.4 billion people are cut off from the global economy because they don't have a bank account at a time of mounting crises? "The geopolitical ramifications are potentially huge," Ali Wyne, senior analyst for Global Macro-Geopolitics at Eurasia Group, says during a livestream conversation on closing the global digital gap hosted by GZERO in partnership with Visa.

Adapting to a digital economy around the world
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Adapting to a digital economy around the world

In the next decade, 70% of new value in the global economy will come from digital businesses. But more than 3.5 billion people without internet access will be cut off, and not all of them will live in the developing world. “This is very much a global challenge,” Eurasia Group senior analyst Ali Wyne says in a livestream conversation hosted by GZERO in partnership with Visa.

The world economy’s digital destiny
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The world economy’s digital destiny

The shift to digital payment systems brings exciting opportunities for growth and incluson, but also a host of new challenges.

A customer sets-up M-Pesa money transfer servive inside a store operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom.
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What We’re Watching: Boosting access, gender equality, and trust in the digital economy

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The Graphic Truth: Mobile payments around the world

Mobile payments took off during the pandemic, and there's no going back. Contactless payments using your phone are now king in many parts of the world, like China, where cash is becoming an afterthought. But adoption has been uneven, with Asia leading the way and Latin America struggling to keep pace. Meanwhile, people in sub-Saharan Africa are digging low-tech mobile payment solutions that work on simple cellphone networks. We look at which regions will dominate these transactions in the future and which are the most popular platforms globally, highlighting a few select markets.

A woman holds a black cross with a sign against Bitcon during a protest against President Bukele's government in El Salvador.
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Hard Numbers: Salvadorans snub crypto, Chinese heart QR codes, Nigerians go cashless, Europeans shop online