Everyday, both in print and digital media, scary stories emerge about robots killing jobs. For now, such stories are familiar in developed countries, but they foreshadow an emerging premonition that the process of automation will soon affect millions of jobs in developing countries.
Automation has many dimensions, but the one that gets the most attention is the automation of tasks that are laborious, repetitive, dangerous, dirty, or dull. More often than not, these types of jobs pay less than what is considered a decent wage.
Once upon a time, rickshaws used to ply major streets of Dhaka. Now Dhaka’s roads are […]
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