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From Financial Inclusion to Employment: Four Ways Superplatforms Will Shape Africa’s Future
Perhaps surprisingly, young people in sub-Saharan Africa and other low-income countries haven't embraced digital payments to the extent of their older peers. But that may be changing as "superplatforms" like Alibaba and Facebook – which can leverage their data and tech capabilities over multiple sectors – emerge in the region. David Porteous and Amolo Ng’weno of BFA and Olga Morawcynski of Mastercard Foundation discuss four ways these tech platforms will shape youth employment, financial inclusion, digital identity and other fields.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press release: New project to boost agribusiness, youth employment in Kenya
Vijabiz aims to promote innovative, attractive and sustainable employment for youth by providing training, coaching and mentoring in the entrepreneurship and business skills needed to develop and run successful agricultural enterprises. The initial focus will be on cereals, dairy and fishery value chains.
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- Press release
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment, youth
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Meet The Social Entrepreneur Behind Africa’s “Uber For The Farm”
How do you sell agriculture as a meaningful career for young people? Hello Tractor, founded in 2014, is helping illuminate one path: By cutting down on the labor and the drudgery long associated with farming, they’re making it more attractive and more lucrative for the next generation.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Heads in the Cloud: Leveraging Cloud Computing to Tackle Poverty and Youth Unemployment
Despite rapid economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, the regions struggle with high youth unemployment and a dearth of highly skilled tech workers. Digital Divide Data (DDD) sees both a challenge and opportunity in these uncertain conditions. DDD’s Becky Santora explores the impact of skills training to teach youth to manage cutting-edge tech in these rapidly-shifting economies.
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- Technology
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- employment, youth
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How a tiny Indian state is battling joblessness through entrepreneurship
A nationwide survey in 2016 said the state had the best working conditions for women in India. The literacy rate is seventh highest and its young are educated but, without jobs, drifting into drugs and despair.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- employment, youth
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Report: Automation will trigger rise in slavery and abuse in SE Asia
Of five issues raised in the company’s 2018 Human Rights Outlook report, automation is identified as presenting the most “significant challenges to the reputations, operations, and supply chains of multinational companies, now and in the future.”
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Maharashtra has most robotics jobs in India
According to data from global job site Indeed, there has been a rise of 186% in the number of job seekers for robotics profiles between May 2015 and May 2018.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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How Employers in Poor Countries Are Using Nudges to Help Employees Save Money
The idea is simple: people save more in retirement accounts when they are automatically enrolled by their employer than when they have to sign up themselves.