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With AI already impacting certain occupations and industries, one can't help but ask: how will this transformative technology affect closing the gap between rich and poor countries–one of the most important challenges of our time?

As powerful as general-purpose technologies like AI are, they do not teleologically result in advancements for the world’s poorest. Several key barriers must be overcome first. But extremely poor households can benefit from AI despite internet access.

Last week, CGD and ACET (The African Center for Economic Transformation) co-hosted an event on rules that limit the cross-border transfer of digital data. The basis for the discussion was David Medine’s recent paper for CGD “Data Localization: A Tax on the Poor,” and the group involved experts and p...

How can practitioners in development and humanitarian work filter out the noise and prioritize use cases for AI--and make good bets that maximize impact for those we serve?

More than 60 countries have data localization measures in place that restrict or prohibit the flow of certain types of data across their borders to other jurisdictions. A new CGD working paper by David Medine makes clear that these restrictions may have their greatest impact on smaller economies inc...

This year’s, COP, the big UN climate conference, opened with the Independent High-Level Expert Group in Climate Finance saying trillions of dollars were required annually for developing countries to meet climate goals, the ONE campaign documenting that donors had utterly failed to deliver on their e...