{"id":3723,"date":"2023-11-08T03:39:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2023-11-08T03:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:39:32","slug":"digital-technology-more-cost-effective-for-developing-countries-dr-shamshad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=3723","title":{"rendered":"Digital technology more cost effective for developing countries, Dr. Shamshad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"3724\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231107-WA0095-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231107-WA0095-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231107-WA0095-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231107-WA0095-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231107-WA0095.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : Dr.Shamshad Akhtar, Caretaker Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue, &amp; Economic Affairs, addressed the Pakistan Spotlight Day at the WEF &#8211; Edison Alliance event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She congratulated the Alliance on the success achieved on the 1 Billion Lives Challenge, with a focus on accelerating digital inclusion for the 1.4bn unbanked population in developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her speech highlighted initiatives from Pakistan, specifically the Asaan Mobile Account (AMA) initiative, which led to the opening of 8.5 million new bank accounts, including 3.2mn for women, &amp; BISP, that provides financial assistance to 8M families using digital payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She further underscored the need to make digital technology more cost effective &amp; affordable for developing countries and stressed the need to replicate the successful Alliance initiatives in healthcare, education, &amp; finance across developing economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Dr.Shamshad Akhtar, Caretaker Federal Minister for Finance, Revenue, &amp; Economic Affairs, addressed the Pakistan Spotlight Day at the WEF &#8211; Edison Alliance event. She congratulated the Alliance on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}