World Bank: AI Offers a Growth "Lifeline" to Developing Economies — But Only With the Right Investments
New flagship report finds only 4.5% of jobs in developing economies face automation risk, versus 14.2% in wealthy nations, while nearly 16% of jobs in emerging markets could see meaningful productivity gains from AI — arriving as developing economies post their weakest average growth in thirty years. The Bank frames AI as a conditional opportunity: gains depend on foundational investment in electricity, connectivity, data infrastructure, and workforce skills, or the technology risks deepening global inequality instead.
Emerging-market leaders and capability builders have a narrow window to pair AI adoption with infrastructure and skills investment before the productivity gap with wealthy nations hardens into a structural divide.
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