Ratnakar Adhikari (EIF) and Taffere Tesfachew (UNTBLDC) discuss how LDCs can benefit from technology on their path towards structural transformation

On transforming healthcare where it’s needed most

Originally published in OECD-Development Matters on 6 July 2020

The macroeconomic context for developing country trade in the time of COVID-19

Recently launched ecommerce training program and portal will help hundreds of women entrepreneurs in South Asian LDCs become part of regional and global supply chains.

Country’s online trading system off to a timely start, as COVID’s physical distancing requirements disrupt manual systems

Government and private sector worked together to create jobs in new ‘industry’

Originally published by Devex on 10 March 2020

UNCTAD has assessed the state of play in the two countries and identified policy actions required to harness ecommerce for development.

Originally published in World Economic Forum Agenda on 24 April 2020

Information access via tech could increase yields and incomes for cotton farmers in Africa

Originally published in OECD-Development Matters on 5 February 2020

Agriculture 4.0, fuelled by innovation and technology, is driving more productive, efficient and sustainable food systems.

The entrepreneurial uptake of computer technology and the entrenchment of digitisation have made Africa a demonstrable source of intellectual power in the digital sphere.

Without action, one out of every four people living in LDCs will be offline due to the lack of digital skills

The digital transformation provides developing economies new opportunities to leapfrog industrial age infrastructure, to draw on the vast knowledge spillovers from the internet, to take advantage of new markets offered by digital platforms and to exploit production possibilities enabled by digital technologies.