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Why the AI question in low-digitisation economies is rarely about AI.

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Sixteen Percent

On why the AI question in emerging markets isn't about AI

A World Development Report background paper, published at the end of July, went looking at 1,563 companies across 83 countries, all of them drawn from IFC's private-equity and venture portfolio — the kind of firm…

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The Trust Deficit Premium

Why the same technology is worth more here than there

Nobody has a line item called trust. Everybody pays for it.

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