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World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
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Series: World Development Report
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ISBN13: 9781464823312
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 376
Language: English
In a time when development progress has slowed to its weakest pace in 75 years, artificial intelligence (AI) offers developing economies a rare path to greater prosperity. World Development Report 2026 provides the first comprehensive assessment of what AI means for these economies-- how fi rms and governments are already using it, what is holding them back, where the largest gains may lie, and how the risks can be managed.
Its central message is both practical and ambitious. Developing countries do not need to build trillion-dollar, all-purpose models to benefit from AI. But importing AI tools is also not enough. Countries must adapt AI to local languages, institutions, data, and development needs; ensure that national systems can work seamlessly with multiple platforms and providers; and steadily build the skills and infrastructure needed to do more. Low-cost tools-- 'small AI'-- can put scarce expertise within reach of millions, through text messages, voice calls, basic phones, and other technologies that work even where electricity, computing power, and internet access are limited. The gains are already visible. AI is accelerating medical screening, assisting farmers with more accurate weather forecasts, and aiding teachers in creating better lessons for students.
The Report offers a clear framework-- adopt, adapt, and advance-- for the road ahead to help countries capture AI's benefits without wasting scarce resources or deepening dependence on any single supplier. Earlier technological revolutions left much of the developing world behind. This landmark edition of the World Development Report offers developing economies a road map to prevent a repeat of that outcome.
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