What can poor countries sell in the AI age?

Published on July 23, 2026 2:21 PM GMTThis post was crossposted from Under Development with the author's permission, by the Forum team. The author may not see comments.Subtitle: Looking for alternate export-led growth pathwaysIn my last post, I argued that AI threatens economic growth paths for low- and middle-income countries by endangering both manufacturing and service exports. If that’s right, the obvious question is ‘what should LMICs do instead?’There’ve been many proposed alternatives. On...