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Automation and Inequality in China and southern Africa

Automation and Inequality in China and southern Africa

Update: 2022-08-06
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How is technology changing work across the world? And what impact will it have on inequality? I chat to Dr Jiwei Qian and Professor Imraan Valodia about automation and its widespread social impacts in these two very different contexts.


3:54 : Automation in China


9:17 : Why local governments are encouraging automation


13.51: Impact on inequality


27:53 : How framing of automation overlooks the Global South


44:33 : Gender inequality and automation in Southern Africa

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Automation and Inequality in China and southern Africa

Automation and Inequality in China and southern Africa

Paddy Stephens