IMFBlog2019-09-23T12:31:18-04:00September 23, 2019|
By Yan Carrière-Swallow and Vikram Haksar
Look around the global economy and you’ll see an American company developing the next generation of driverless cars, a Chinese financier extending loans to “mom-and-pop” stores that used to lack access to credit, and researchers at a Swiss pharmaceutical company developing a treatment for a chronic health condition. […]
IMFBlog2019-03-13T13:58:38-04:00September 26, 2018|
By Vitor Gaspar and Chang Yong Rhee
September 26, 2018
عربي, 中文, Español, 日本語, Português, Русский,
A driver from the Malaysian ride-hailing tech startup, Grab, picks up a passenger in Jakarta, Indonesia: digitalization is transforming Asia’s businesses and governments (photo: Afif C. Kasuma/iStock by Getty Images)
Asia’s digital revolution shows no signs of slowing down. From e-commerce giants like China’s Alibaba and Japan’s Rakuten, to ride-hailing, and digital payment tech startups, like Indonesia’s Go-Jek and India’s Paytm, and the widespread use of industrial robots for manufacturing, digitalization is changing the way the region’s businesses operate. […]
