ADB study: government action needed to ensure Asia’s workforce benefit from new technologies

ADB study: government action needed to ensure Asia’s workforce benefit from new technologies

Credit: Asian Development Bank To ensure that everyone can benefit from new technologies, policymakers will need to pursue education reforms that promote lifelong learning, maintain labour market flexibility, strengthen social protection systems, and reduce income inequality,

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) issued its latest report yesterday on the impact of technological advances on labour markets in Asia.

New research on how technology affects jobs, the subject of the special theme chapter in the ADB’s flagship economic publication, Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2018 report, points out that while some of the region’s jobs will be eliminated through automation, countervailing forces will more […]

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