There are few greater drivers of development than quality education. In emerging markets, the number of primary and secondary education graduates is increasing, but enrollment in higher education remains...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the value of digital connectivity and has had numerous and at times contrasting effects on the digital infrastructure sector. Among these effects are an increased demand...
This paper investigates the effects of access to high-speed internet on innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. The identification strategy exploits the staggered arrival of submarine internet cables...
The accelerated use of digital services during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of high-speed Internet access. Yet a large share of adults in emerging markets still live in cities where...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began as a health crisis in early 2020, has rapidly evolved to become an unprecedented economic crisis affecting global, national, and regional economies and...
Sharing mobile network infrastructure through specialized companies called towercos is a business model with the potential to accelerate access to quality mobile connectivity for individuals and businesses...
This note proposes a high-level framework to assess challenges and policy options to enabling private sector-led investment in 5G connectivity in emerging markets. 5G is the latest mobile network technology...
Artificial intelligence (AI) - the science of making machines act in rational, intelligent ways is rapidly making inroads into business operations and society. AI is already being applied in many areas...
Disruptive technologies, defined as emerging technologies that result in a step change in the cost or access to products or services or that dramatically change how we gather information, make products...
Artificial intelligence (AI) the science of making machines act in rational, intelligent ways is rapidly making inroads into business operations and society. AI is already being applied in many areas of...
The COVID-19 pandemic shows that digital connectivity is critical to societal resilience and business continuity in times of crisis. For digital infrastructure providers in emerging markets, higher demand...
Senegal’s strong economic growth since 2014 represents a positive departure from weaker past growth performance since independence. Just this past year, in 2019, Senegal crossed the threshold to become...
Senegal’s strong economic growth since 2014 represents a positive departure from weaker past growth performance since independence. Just this past year, in 2019, Senegal crossed the threshold to become...
Digital connectivity has enormous potential to support development. Yet today some four billion people in emerging economies remain offline, partly due to a lack of affordable Internet access. Sharing...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to augment human intelligence and to radically alter how one access products and services, gather information, make products, and interact. In emerging...