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Frontier markets: Much promise, mixed progress
Frontier markets have significant potential for future growth and job creation, due to their large and rapidly growing populations, improving human capital, and increasing integration into international financial markets. However, their economic perf...
AI policy in developing countries
Umar Saif on why data and politics, not technology, are the real bottlenecks to AI in developing countries, and why the rush towards sovereign AI capacity may be a costly distraction.
Can simpler, cheaper graduation programmes still deliver?
A randomised evaluation of a lower-cost graduation-style programme in rural Ethiopia finds modest gains in savings and livestock income but no sustained improvements in consumption or food security, suggesting that smaller transfers and lighter suppo...
The rise of digital payments in Latin America
Digital payments in Latin America have rapidly replaced cash – driven by innovation, interoperability, and policy – delivering gains in convenience, financial inclusion, efficiency, and growth, while raising complex challenges around informality and ...
