‘Urban Asians to benefit more from digital economy’

Tech-savvy and adequately skilled people in urban areas in Asia, including the Philippines, stand to take advantage of the digital economy more than those who aren’t, researchers from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) found.

According to an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded PIDS study by Francis Mark Quimba, Maureen Ane Rosellon and Sylwyn Calizo Jr., those who live in urban or more affluent areas, are neither too old nor too young to use technology, male, and have sufficient skills are expected to benefit more.