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Trust economics

What it costs to make a stranger believable, and where that cost sits in the accounts.

ENTRY 0026 min

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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ENTRY 0015 min

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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