“AI can make businesses more efficient, speed up technology diffusion, and strengthen innovation. But adoption remains uneven: employers cite skill shortages, inadequate tools, and integration challenges. Ensuring that AI enhances productivity without widening disparities requires further investment in India’s already strong digital infrastructure, training workers, and protecting those who may lose jobs,” the IMF blog post read.
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IMF staff simulations show that AI-driven productivity gains, scaled by AI preparedness and exposure, could raise total factor productivity in emerging Asia (including India) by roughly 0.3 to 3 percentage points over a decade, depending on sectors and scenarios.
The blog post further said that India has already laid important foundations for productivity-enhancing reforms and can build on a world-class digital public infrastructure. “Unlocking the next wave of growth requires a coordinated agenda: easing regulatory burdens so firms can grow, boosting innovation and university-industry collaboration to promote innovation, strengthening business dynamism, and enabling labor to move to higher-productivity sectors.”
With these reforms, India can convert its structural strengths into sustained productivity gains, supporting its endeavors to become an advanced economy, the post read.
The summit witnessed participation from more than 100 countries, including 22 Heads of State or Government, and around 10 international organisations. Participating countries represented regions across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. International organisations such as UN agencies and multilateral development banks also participated in it.