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Weekly Update: ➡️Ensuring Türkiye’s Resilient Recovery and Reconstruction ➡️Unlocking Women Entrepreneurs' Potential in Uzbekistan ➡️Mission 300 Is Not Just a Number #PoweringAfrica ➡️Raising Female Employment in South Asia

Does artificial intelligence (#AI) amount to a dystopian nightmare for the developing world, eliminating #jobs and confirming the worse biases across societies? Or could it lead the way to a brighter future, helping to solve critical development issues?  On this episode of #DevelopmentPodcast, we explore the ways in which artificial intelligence is being used across the globe at a grassroots level in India, Papua New Guinea – as well as get the big picture. Featured voices: ➡️ Christine Zhenwei Qiang, Global Director, Digital Transformation, The World Bank Group ➡️ Naomi Longa, Director and Operations Manager, Sea Women of Melanesia Inc., Papua New Guinea ➡️ Fred Munene, "Farm with Fred" farmer and YouTuber, Kenya ➡️ Snehal Joshi, Principal, Shikha Academy, India ➡️ Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Director of Product Impact, Google.org ➡️ Petra Molnar, Harvard University Faculty Associate, lawyer, anthropologist, and author 🎙️Listen to the episode to learn more: http://wrld.bg/PhVx50UY3G1

Generative artificial intelligence (#GenAI) adoption has skyrocketed worldwide, with middle-income countries now driving more than half of all GenAI-related web traffic. In the workplace, AI expertise is quickly becoming a key hiring factor: 66% of leaders say they wouldn’t hire someone without AI skills. But this revolution comes with challenges. While GenAI is boosting productivity, only 7 to 14% of workers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can benefit from the use of this technology. The digital divide is a major barrier—17 million #jobs could benefit from AI, but workers lack access to essential digital tools. And for some, AI isn’t a tool—it’s a threat. Up to 6% of jobs in the LAC region face high automation risks, disproportionately affecting women and youth. So, where do we go from here? Luis Felipe López-Calva, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, and Hernan Winkler share their insights on this challenge and the path forward. Read more: http://wrld.bg/fRgX50UWZmZ

The World Bank Group (WBG) guarantee platform combines expertise from across WBG institutions to streamline & simplify #guarantee processes. It aims to unlock #PrivateFinance, mitigate risk, & support projects across diverse sectors. http://wrld.bg/tMOY50UW0Vs IFC - International Finance Corporation MIGA

Gender segregation in STEM remains a challenge in South Asia, limiting opportunities for countless women and girls. The 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 report takes a deep dive into the barriers to access and participation in STEM education, applying a hybrid multidimensional framework to uncover key motivations and challenges. It assesses where South Asian countries stand, highlights critical gaps, and offers actionable recommendations to bridge them. Key findings: ➡️The five key opportunities to foster inclusion and enrollment in STEM education – and staunch the “leaky pipeline” - are at the upper primary, lower and upper secondary, and tertiary education levels, and during the early career years. ➡️A strong pathway from STEM education to career depends on an integrated, systematic approach that motivates students to pursue STEM fields, builds STEM skills, and removes barriers to diversity. ➡️With the increasing migration of workers between countries in South Asia, preparing a critical mass of semiskilled and skilled STEM migrant workers has cross-border value, especially for workers migrating from smaller to larger economies. Read more: http://wrld.bg/Tzao50UVXcw

Connecting 300 million people to electricity is more than bridging the electricity access gap. It's about bridging the opportunity gap. In this regard, the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit marked a turning point: - One with the bold ambition to change the development trajectory of an entire continent. - With concrete plans to bring electricity to millions of people by 2030. - And with that, to unlock opportunities for Africa’s population. #PoweringAfrica

For Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania, “Energy is the key to Africa’s growth!” At the #Mission300 Africa Energy Summit, the Dar es Salaam Declaration marks a pivotal step toward making this vision a reality. Read more ➡️ http://wrld.bg/Ms3z50UVbE5 #PoweringAfrica

733 million people suffered from malnutrition in 2023. #Food and #nutrition insecurity remain urgent global challenges, yet tracking them is notoriously difficult due to significant data gaps. These five alarming statistics highlight the severity of the crisis—and the reality could be even worse when considering the missing data. To drive meaningful progress, we must invest in robust data systems and harness technological innovations to transform a fragmented data landscape into a more cohesive and actionable one. 🔗 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: http://wrld.bg/v84u50UUtqQ

Global growth is projected to stabilize at 2.7% in 2025-26, but developing economies urgently need to accelerate progress toward their development goals. To address this challenge, these economies require a new playbook—one that focuses on: ✔️ Attracting private investment ✔️ Strengthening trade ties ✔️ Maximizing the efficient use of capital, talent, and energy Explore the path forward in the #GEP2025 ➡️http://wrld.bg/UJZO50UHKcr

Two years after the devastating earthquakes in #Türkiye, the impact remains staggering – 300,000 buildings damaged or destroyed, with $104 billion needed for reconstruction.  The World Bank Group has been part of the recovery, supporting efforts to restore homes, businesses, and essential services:  🏠 1,800+ new homes built   🏫 13 schools rebuilt   🏥 6 new hospitals serving 5.3M patients   💼 Financial support for 95K businesses   🌆 Rebuilding municipal infrastructure  The work continues to help communities recover and rebuild. Watch how these efforts are making a difference. #IFC4Türkiye #WBG4Türkiye  Hela Cheikhrouhou Wiebke Schloemer