Technology

While income growth has been labeled "the holy grail of development," new analysis from Owen Barder, Lee Robinson, and Euan Ritchie suggests that there is just as much value in focusing on promoting innovation and the spread of technology.

In Africa, as in much of the developing world, “informality” has become the dread of policymakers who are constantly told by international development agencies and consultants to “formalise” their economies.

There is an industrial revolution underway in sub-Saharan Africa’s most entrepreneurial economies.

In this episode of Sounds Robotic, we discuss the potential upsides of AI and automation as well as the "lump of labor" fallacy as applied to robots.

While there are several success stories where technology has helped level the playing field and brought economic opportunities to vulnerable communities in India, the question remains: Will technology help advance gender equality, or will it instead fuel a growing gender-digital divide?

In many developing countries health supply chains function poorly, resulting in frequent stockouts and many substandard and even falsified medications—which undermine treatment effectiveness and raise the risk of antimicrobial resistance.