Artificial intelligence

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• How Central Banks Can Contain Financial Stability Risks as AI Accelerates Change
  • Published: July 23, 2026
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian
  • Summary: Stronger oversight, better data, and deeper coordination are needed to safeguard faster and more interconnected markets
• New Skills and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Work
  • Published: January 14, 2026
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Policy choices will determine whether workers and firms are adequately prepared for the AI revolution
• How Europe Can Capture the AI Growth Dividend
  • Published: November 20, 2025
  • Authors: Florian Misch, Ben Park, Carlo Pizzinelli, Galen Sher
  • Summary: Artificial intelligence could boost Europe’s productivity, but gains will hinge on efforts to deepen the single market and the calibration of regulation
• AI Needs More Abundant Power Supplies to Keep Driving Economic Growth
  • Published: May 13, 2025
  • Authors: Christian Bogmans, Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez, Giovanni Melina, Sneha Thube
  • Summary: The power-hungry technology requires policies to help expand electricity supplies, incentivize alternative sources, and help contain price surges
• How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost Productivity in Latin America
  • Published: March 20, 2025
  • Authors: Bas B. Bakker, Sophia Chen, Dmitry Vasilyev
  • Summary: Some countries risk missing out on the full economic benefits of AI, but more formal jobs and expanded digital access can help
• How AI Can Help Both Tax Collectors and Taxpayers
  • Published: February 25, 2025
  • Authors: Thomas Cantens, Herve Tourpe
  • Summary: New generative AI tools can redefine the relationship between governments and citizens, but strong leadership and safeguards are fundamental.
• How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Asia’s Economies
  • Published: January 5, 2025
  • Authors: Tristan Hennig, Shujaat Khan
  • Summary: AI may widen inequality, but policymakers can counteract this with more effective social safety nets, reskilling programs, and regulations to promote ethical use of the technology
• Artificial Intelligence Can Make Markets More Efficient—and More Volatile
  • Published: October 15, 2024
  • Authors: Nassira Abbas, Charles Cohen, Dirk Jan Grolleman, Benjamin Mosk
  • Summary: AI-driven trading could lead to faster and more efficient markets, but also higher trading volumes and greater volatility in times of stress
• Mapping the World's Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Shows Prospects Diverge
  • Published: June 25, 2024
  • Authors: Giovanni Melina
  • Summary: New AI Preparedness Index Dashboard tracks 174 economies based on their digital infrastructure, human capital, labor policies, innovation, integration and regulation
• Fiscal Policy Can Help Broaden the Gains of AI to Humanity
  • Published: June 17, 2024
  • Authors: Era Dabla-Norris, Ruud de Mooij
  • Summary: The AI transition will require stronger social safety nets, investment in education, and tax systems that support human workers and mitigate inequality
• AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let’s Make Sure It Benefits Humanity.
  • Published: January 14, 2024
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others. We need a careful balance of policies to tap its potential
• The AI Awakening
  • Published: November 30, 2023
  • Authors: Gita Bhatt
  • Summary: Generative AI has introduced tantalizing new possibilities. Yet the initial excitement surrounding AI has given way to genuine and growing concerns. This issue is an early attempt to understand AI’s implications for growth, jobs, inequality, and finance.
• Sharing the Gains of Automation: The Role of Fiscal Policy
  • Published: November 18, 2021
  • Authors: Nikolay Gueorguiev, Ryota Nakatani
  • Summary: Careful calibration of spending and tax policies can reduce inequality caused by automation.
• Needed—A Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age
  • Published: October 26, 2021
  • Authors: Vikram Haksar, Yan Carrière-Swallow, Kathleen Kao, Gabriel Quirós-Romero
  • Summary: Global principles on data policy can help level the playing field while addressing financial stability and inclusion, competition, and privacy.
• How Artificial Intelligence Could Widen the Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations
  • Published: December 2, 2020
  • Authors: Cristian Alonso, Siddharth Kothari, Sidra Rehman
  • Summary: New technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production processes, but they could also have a major impact on developing economies.
• The Economics of Data
  • Published: September 23, 2019
  • Authors: Yan Carrière-Swallow, Vikram Haksar
  • Summary: Look around the global economy and you’ll see an American company developing the next generation of driverless cars, a Chinese financier extending loans to “mom-and-pop” stores that used to lack access to credit, and researchers at a Swiss pharmaceutical company developing a treatment for a chronic health condition.
• Chart of the Week: Invest in Robots and People in Asia
  • Published: August 29, 2018
  • Authors: The Editors
  • Summary: More complex work that could only be done by humans can now be done by machines.
• The Art in Artificial Intelligence: Make the Robots Serve the Public Good
  • Published: January 11, 2018
  • Authors: Brian McNeill
  • Summary: Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has rapidly matured as a viable field of technology.
• Tomorrow's Workplace
  • Published: May 31, 2017

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