{"id":1031434,"date":"2026-08-27T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031434"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:45:55","slug":"ai-boom-eased-hormuz-energy-shock-but-developing-countries-lag-imf-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/ai-boom-eased-hormuz-energy-shock-but-developing-countries-lag-imf-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom eased Hormuz energy shock, but developing countries lag: IMF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global economy handled the Strait of Hormuz energy shock &#8220;better than we feared&#8221;, helped by strong AI investment, drawdowns of oil and gas reserves, and higher supplies from outside the Gulf, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Tuesday said. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the rise of AI, Georgieva said, &#8220;What started out as a US phenomenon with AI is now becoming a growth engine for the global economy, with other countries ramping up construction of data centres and other infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global economy handled the Strait of Hormuz energy shock &#8220;better than we feared&#8221;, helped by strong AI investment, drawdowns of oil and gas reserves, and higher supplies from outside the Gulf, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Tuesday said. Speaking about the rise of AI, Georgieva said, &#8220;What started out as a US phenomenon with AI is now becoming a growth engine for the global economy, with other countries ramping up construction of data centres and other infrastructure.&#8221;<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031434","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=1031434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031454,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031434\/revisions\/1031454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}