The IFC’s 2026 report says AI investment in emerging markets should target ecosystems, not only imported models, because deployment depends on connectivity, compute, data governance, and skills. The World Bank Group report, “Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Investment in Emerging Markets,” frames AI adoption through ecosystem and structural lenses covering hard infrastructure, sector applications, data availability, energy, and institutional readiness. For practitioners, the point is operational: model choice matters, but local cloud access, data pipelines, edge capacity, and trained integration teams often decide whether AI pilots become durable production systems.