Which organisation publishes the World Development Report, whose 2026 edition is subtitled "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence"?

The correct answer is adoption, adaptation and advancement. The report examines the opportunities and risks AI brings to developing economies and offers this sequence as the framework through which such countries can turn the technology into development gains. Its practical advice is to take tools that already exist and fit them to local needs instead of spending billions building advanced systems from scratch, and only then move to the advancement stage. Options B, C and D are invented sequences built from words that sound plausible in AI policy but do not match the framework. A useful companion fact is the report’s three-word counsel to developing countries, be optimistic, be strategic and be pragmatic, along with its reminder that governments act simultaneously as enablers, users and regulators of AI and must make cost-conscious choices in all three roles.

The correct answer is Michael Kremer, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Group, who used the lecture to argue that India’s progress in AI carries lessons for the wider developing world. He pointed to India’s AI-based monsoon forecasting, built by combining several models including open-access ones and delivered to farmers through text, voice and advisories, which anticipated the unusual monsoon of 2025 and is now being followed by Ethiopia. Option A is wrong because Somik Lall gave opening remarks, saying the report is about deploying AI rather than creating it. Option B is wrong because Gaurav Nayyar presented the report’s key findings in a separate session. Option D is wrong because the MeitY Secretary delivered special remarks, in which he noted work under way on an AI Talent Mission.

The correct answer is US$36.92 billion. That is the estimated size of the Ayush services economy in FY2024-25, after growth at a 16.91 per cent compound annual rate since FY2022-23, and it is the base from which the sector is projected to reach US$216-318 billion by 2047. Option A, US$16.21 billion, is the revenue of one segment only, the standalone clinics, which is 43.9 per cent of the sector total and so cannot be the whole. Options B and D, US$26.92 billion and US$46.92 billion, are near misses placed around the real figure to test whether the number has been learnt precisely; neither appears in the assessment. Aspirants should also keep in mind the related figures: US$10.13 billion for day-care centres, US$17.73 billion for Ayurveda as a system, and US$1.77 billion earned through Medical Value Travel in the same year.

The correct answer is 43 per cent. The assessment of the Ayush services sector puts the share of women in the sector's total workforce at 43 per cent, and notes that the share rises past half in several organised segments. Option C, 53 per cent, is the figure for hospitals alone, not for the whole sector, so it is a segment number rather than the overall one. Option D, 63 per cent, matches no reported segment either; the highest segment share reported is over 60 per cent, recorded in spas and wellness resorts. Option A, 33 per cent, understates the finding and appears nowhere in the assessment. Candidates should hold the overall number apart from the segment numbers: 53 per cent in hospitals, 57 per cent in day-care centres and 58 per cent in educational institutes, against 43 per cent for the sector taken as a whole.

The correct answer is standalone clinics. They remain the biggest revenue-generating segment of the Ayush services sector, bringing in an estimated US$16.21 billion, which works out to 43.9 per cent of the sector's revenue. Option B, day-care centres, comes second with about US$10.13 billion; taken together the two segments account for more than 70 per cent of sector revenue, but day-care centres on their own stay well behind clinics. Option A, hospitals, is reported for its workforce composition, where women hold 53 per cent of posts, and for the role of foreign patients in its revenue, but it is not named the largest earner. Option D, spas and wellness resorts, is the segment with the highest share of women at over 60 per cent, which is a workforce statistic and not a revenue one. Note also that among the individual systems, Ayurveda is the largest at US$17.73 billion.