Future of the workforce: the 780 million job gap, the AI reckoning, and the missing link in the World Bank's biggest bet

Ajay Banga does not speak like a development banker. He speaks like a businessman who has stared at a demographic cliff and decided it is actually a launching pad. His framing, repeated in every forum he enters, is stark: 1.2 billion young people will enter the workforce over the next decade and a half, against a projected supply of 420 million jobs.