Ending global poverty: Education and digital technology

By Laurence Chandy, Adrianna Pita and Rebecca Winthrop. If we think about the progress of getting people out of extreme poverty, it is really impressive. But it is actually a much slower trend then what we have seen in the spread of digital technology. The speed with which mobile phone ownership has spread around the world, access to bank accounts, biometric identification cards, people getting online – these trends are happening even faster. More...