Technology & Innovation

Scattered pilots risk overshadowing more vital infrastructure investments in the adaptation layer that can unlock AI for development. Matching AI's capabilities to real-world impact requires overcoming deployment constraints. These constraints come i...

Evidence from a randomised evaluation in Mexico shows that an AI-powered mental health app can improve mental health, daily functioning, and labour market outcomes, while also helping users experiencing more severe psychological distress engage with ...

Ethiopia’s industrial parks have substantially increased local economic activity, household living standards, and women’s empowerment, but the gains stay close to the parks and depend heavily on where parks are built.

A national drug reimbursement reform in China, which traded price reductions for guaranteed patient access, dramatically expanded the country’s pharmaceutical innovation, offering a rare policy model that reconciles drug affordability with R&D incent...

Karthik Tadepalli on why adopt vs innovate is a false dichotomy, how Taiwan and Brazil did both, and why R&D should be a central part of the development playbook.

What we learned from our series on AI.

Umar Saif on why data and politics, not technology, are the real bottlenecks to AI in developing countries, and why the rush towards sovereign AI capacity may be a costly distraction.