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World Bank
Our briefs and analysis on World Bank: the decisions, reports and programmes on artificial intelligence it puts its name to, read for what they offer developing countries. Each piece links to the documents it draws on.
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Briefs and analysis
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No. 027
World bank's 2026 warning needs donors to fund public AI
Analysis
Unless the World Bank, IMF, major donors and cloud providers tie finance to public control of data, sovereign compute and recurrent operating budgets, AI will scale services in the Global South while locking governments into vendor dependence and widening the World Bank’s warned productivity gap.
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No. 009
World Bank releases first Digital and AI Strategy targeting emerging markets
The World Bank Group has published its first Digital and AI Strategy, pledging to connect one billion people in developing economies to digital and AI tools by 2030.