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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Main Messages -- Overview -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Digital Technologies: Enabling Technological Transformation for Jobs -- What are digital technologies? -- Africa's jobs and technology challenges -- Impacts of digital technology use on jobs and poverty -- Africa's large internet uptake gap -- Data and knowledge gaps for future work -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Enterprises: Creating Better Jobs for More People through Innovation -- Digital technology use by African enterprises |
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COVID-19 and digital divides -- Drivers of enterprise use -- Technology policies for more and better firms -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Households: Supporting Productive Use of DTs for Inclusive Economic Impact -- Household internet use is low, uneven, but growing -- The COVID-19 paradox: Increased internet usage but widened digital divides -- Understanding constraints to household internet use -- A policy framework to transform use into inclusive impact -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
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Chapter 4 Digital and Data Infrastructure: Stimulating Greater Availability and Use through Policy and Regulatory Reforms -- Market challenges of internet connectivity: Affordability, use, and quality -- Affordability to increase use -- Availability to reduce digital divides -- Data infrastructure and regulation for affordability and willingness to use -- Looking ahead: Regional integration and climate transition -- Summary of key findings for more inclusive use -- Annex 4A Supplemental data -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- Box 1.1 What are "good jobs"? |
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Box 1.2 The World Bank's "economic transformation for jobs" framework -- Box 2.1 Rapid diffusion of website technology during COVID-19 -- Box 2.2 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobile app use in Africa -- Box 2.3 Public inputs to strengthen value chains in Senegal, Kenya, and Peru -- Box 2.4 A job creation program in Senegal: Effective design for technological transformation -- Box 3.1 E-commerce for economic inclusion in China's Taobao Villages -- Box 3.2 Reliable electricity and the digital economy -- Box 3.3 Smart Villages in Niger for inclusive availability and productive use |
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Box 4.1 Regressive broadband pricing constrains use by the poor -- Box 4.2 High broadband prices and limited offerings constrain data use by SMEs -- Box 4.3 Creating digital institutions in situations of fragility, conflict, and violence: Transforming the sector in Somalia -- Box 4.4 Senegal's digital acceleration journey: The role of infrastructure regulatory reforms -- Box 4.5 The evolving taxation of digital services -- Box 4.6 Alternative technologies for covering rural and remote areas -- Figures -- Figure O.1 Conceptual framework for policy analysis of DTs' impacts on job and income growth |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Figure O.2 Effects of mobile internet availability on job creation and household welfare, Nigeria and Tanzania |
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Job creation -- Africa
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Digital divide -- Africa
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Internet -- Government policy -- Africa
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Technology -- Economic aspects -- Africa
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Digital divide
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Internet -- Government policy
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Job creation
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Technology -- Economic aspects
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blimpo, Moussa
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Dutz, Mark
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| ISBN |
1464818371 |
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9781464818370 |
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