This report provides a comprehensive, data-driven snapshot of the global AI landscape. It highlights a stark divide: Most innovations remain concentrated in high-income countries. Yet, a promising…
The article reports on three AFI-led side events at COP30 in Brazil that highlighted the critical role of central banks and financial regulators in advancing Inclusive Green Finance (IGF). The…
The article covers a study visit to Thailand by staff from the State Bank of Pakistan and 11 Pakistani banks, organized by AFI and the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association. The…
Pakistan is a developing country with agro-based economy. Several extension approaches, designed primarily to improve the living standard of rural people through increased agricultural production and…
Wheat, a major Indian staple food crop is largely prone to rusts infection. Inter alia, wheat producers have been advocated to adopt the recently released innovative technologies (rust resistant high…
Blockchain(BC) is used in the agriculture to track information about the entire growth from the seed, plant and crops. Initially it is used only in the financial domain, now it is implemented in all…
The use of mobile phones in poverty reduction and development has ignited much interest over the past decade. To take advantage of the rapid expansion of mobile phones in developing countries…
This report, featured in Brookings' Foresight Africa 2018, examines how modern agricultural and digital technologies can catalyze a paradigm shift from "agriculture as a way of life" to "agriculture…
Today, Botswana is just one example of the many African countries that have set out detailed plans for their economic future centered around the implementation of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)…