{"id":1022709,"date":"2026-07-22T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022709"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:44:40","slug":"ai-could-lift-sub-saharan-africa-economy-4-if-power-internet-improve-imf-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/ai-could-lift-sub-saharan-africa-economy-4-if-power-internet-improve-imf-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could lift Sub-Saharan Africa economy 4% if power, internet improve, IMF says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence could boost Sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s economy by about 4% over the next decade with better electricity supply, internet access and digital skills, an International Monetary Fund paper showed on Tuesday, but without such reforms the growth dividend could be negligible. <\/p>\n<p>As countries \u200cand companies race \u2060to secure \u2060AI&#8217;s economic benefits, investment in data centres, energy infrastructure and digital networks is surging worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>But Sub-Saharan Africa, which ranks lowest on the IMF&#8217;s \u200bAI Preparedness Index, risks capturing only a fraction of the potential gains if infrastructure bottlenecks remain unaddressed, the paper found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence could boost Sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s economy by about 4% over the next decade with better electricity supply, internet access and digital skills, an International Monetary Fund paper showed on Tuesday, but without such reforms the growth dividend could be negligible. As countries \u200cand companies race \u2060to secure \u2060AI&#8217;s economic benefits, investment in data centres, energy infrastructure and digital networks is surging worldwide. But Sub-Saharan Africa, which ranks lowest on the IMF&#8217;s \u200bAI Preparedness Index, risks capturing only a fraction of the potential gains if infrastructure bottlenecks remain unaddressed, the paper found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022710,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022709\/revisions\/1022710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}