New report shows 90 per cent of adolescent girls in low-income economies are offline

Apr 28, 2023, at 09:49 pm

Around 90 per cent of adolescent girls and young women do not use the internet in low-income countries, while their male peers are twice as likely to be online, according to a new UNICEF analysis, coinciding with the UN’s International Girls in ICT Day.

Nearly two-thirds of global workforce in the ‘informal’ economy – UN study

May 01, 2018, at 01:44 pm

New York, May 1 (IBNS): More than 61 per cent of the world’s employed population – two billion people – earn their livelihoods in the informal sector, the United Nations labour agency said on Monday, stressing that a transition to the formal economy is critical to ensure rights’ protection and decent working conditions.