Imagine engaging in a conversation with a comprehensive macroeconomic report, asking questions, exploring scenarios, and receiving real-time insights tailored to your queries. The Inter-American Development Bank has made this vision a reality by seamlessly integrating an AI system within its flagship reports. The 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report, Ready for … [Read more...] about AI Reinvents IDB Flagship Reports: Ushering in a New Era of Interactive Economic Research and Policymaking
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AI and the Future of (No?) Work in Developing Countries
For the last two centuries, workers have been the central factor of production. As a result, real wages in industrialized countries have steadily risen and living standards soared to 20 times what they were 200 years ago. But the Age of Labor—with humans providing the main component of output—may be coming to a rapid end. Artificial Intelligence (AI) could soon reach the level … [Read more...] about AI and the Future of (No?) Work in Developing Countries
Leveraging Behavioral Insights for a More Equitable Workplace
Most of us are biased. We scan the world, making emotional and often automatic judgments about people based on factors like gender, race and socio-economic status. We misjudge people. When it comes to hiring, this can result not only in unfair decisions that penalize deserving candidates, but to more homogenous—and less creative and productive—groups of employees. As we … [Read more...] about Leveraging Behavioral Insights for a More Equitable Workplace