Chart of the Week October 20, 2022: The global surge in Digital Payments

Summary: A comparison between emerging economies across different geographical regions and high-income economies reveals the colossal magnitude of the digital payments revolution. The closer the economies are to the top-left corner, the stronger their growth in digital payments usage between 2014 and 2021. The concentration of high-income countries in the top-right corner reflects a well-established […]

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Chart of the Week September 10, 2021: Enabling the Digital Economy: – Leapfrogging in Asia’s Infocomm Infrastructure

Summary: In Asia, where there is a clear recognition of the benefits of broad digital access, we see that there are signs of rapid technological leapfrogging in Infocomm infrastructure. The Service Penetration Rate of at least LTE/WiMAX mobile networks in Asia has ballooned rapidly in the brief period between 2015 – 2019. In most of […]

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