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Juniper Research has predicted that the use of mobile devices to make retail and store payments will act as a driver for financial inclusion of the unbanked in the world's emerging markets.

In a new report, the company forecasts that mobile merchant transactions by unbanked individuals will grow from 1.8 billion per annum in 2018 to 3.8 billion by 2023.

The new research, Mobile…

The Philippines' PLDT and wireless subsidiary Smart have announced they have accelerated their fixed and wireless network expansion initiatives, and are close to reaching their full-year targets.

As of the end of June, Smart had deployed more than 3,900 LTE and LTE-Advanced base stations this year, raising its total by 45% to over 12,600.

The LTE rollout is utilizing the 700-…

Today’s gig economy has profound implications for the workers’ social protection schemes of tomorrow.

Digital networks are an increasingly critical component of global trade. In 2017, the Global Review of Aid for Trade highlighted the importance of accessible and affordable connections for trade connectivity. Drawing extensively on information harvested in the Monitoring and Evaluation exercise in preparation for the Review, this paper analyses aid for trade for digital connectivity and e-…

We estimate the effects of industrial localization on the spatial persistence of employment in the software industry, using micro-data from Texas for the 2000-2006 period. Locations with an initial concentration of software employment retain an excess number of employees, beyond that expected from job turnover and job persistence at the establishment level. This is not driven by differential…