REGIONAL OFFICE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (OAP)

Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar

New Economic Challenges: Artificial Intelligence and Green Innovation

Harnessing the potential and addressing the risks of cutting-edge technology is an urgent challenge in the Asia and Pacific region and elsewhere. The IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific held a seminar with the authors of two new IMF Staff Discussion Notes on “Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work” and “Green Innovation and Diffusion”. Florence Jaumotte, Division Chief in the IMF Research Department, will discuss the labor-market implications of Gen-AI and policies to utilize AI’s full potential. Samuel Pienknagura, Senior Economist in the IMF Research Department, highlighted the role of a global climate policy strategy to bolster innovation in and development of low-carbon technologies and its impacts on growth. A Q&A session followed their presentations.

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Speakers:

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  Florence Jaumotte is Division Chief of the Structural and Climate Policies Division in the IMF Research Department. She has also worked in the Multilateral Surveillance Division and the World Economic Studies Division of the department, on a number of IMF country teams, and at the OECD in Paris. Her research interests include: labor market policies, climate, economic growth, inequality, and open-economy macroeconomics. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

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  Samuel Pienknagura is a Senior Economist at the Structural and Climate Policies Division in the IMF Research Department. Before that, he worked at the IMF’s Regional Studies Division for WHD and at the World Bank. His research interests are International Economics and Macroeconomics, with a focus on developing economies. More recently, his research has focused on the link between climate policies and economic outcomes.

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