Technology & Innovation

A national drug reimbursement reform in China, which traded price reductions for guaranteed patient access, dramatically expanded the country’s pharmaceutical innovation, offering a rare policy model that reconciles drug affordability with R&D incent...

Karthik Tadepalli on why adopt vs innovate is a false dichotomy, how Taiwan and Brazil did both, and why R&D should be a central part of the development playbook.

What we learned from our series on AI.

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.

Josh Lerner discusses why there is a gap between innovation and impact, and how policymakers can speed up technological diffusion.

Organisations in India are already using AI for development across its courts, classrooms and farms.