A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI
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If the World Bank is right that AI is net accretive to labor in poorer economies, the competitive gap shifts from wage arbitrage to who can deploy AI literacy and infra fastest. Multinationals should be updating offshoring and BPO strategies now—talent plus AI in these markets may outcompete some current HQ functions.
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