Gaza economy shrinks to less than a sixth of its pre-war size, UN report says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Gaza’s economy has shrunk to less than a sixth of its size when the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, while unemployment in the occupied West Bank has nearly tripled, a UN report said on Thursday, underscoring the challenges of reconstruction. The report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and […]
Luxury to essential: Latin America boosts internet access in pandemic
ANASTASIA MOLONEY and FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how the pandemic exposed a deep digital divide across Latin America and the Caribbean – and what is being done to address it…