Forget sweatshops; the digital economy is arguably as exploitative of its workers, who sit for hours a day at a computer for a miserable pittance. We look at what the global development community can do to stop the practice.
Also in today’s edition: How localization can save billions of dollars each year, and a look at a U.S. government initiative to help African farmers boost agricultural output.
+ Join us: Tomorrow, Feb. 9, at 8 a.m. ET (2 p.m. CET), we’ll host a Twitter Spaces conversation with Save the Children US CEO Janti Soeripto on what’s next for NGOs in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s employment ban on female aid workers.
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About the author
Helen Murphy
Helen is an award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development in the Americas. Based in Colombia, she previously covered war, politics, financial markets, and general news for Reuters, where she headed the bureau, and for Bloomberg in Colombia and Argentina, where she witnessed the financial meltdown. She started her career in London as a reporter for Euromoney Publications before moving to Hong Kong to work for a daily newspaper.
