France President Emmanuel Macron began his address at the India AI Impact Summit Thursday morning with a ‘namaste’ and praise for India for having “built what no other country can”. He illustrated his point by referring to a roadside vendor in Mumbai – one of crores of Indians battling the ghost of poverty almost daily – and how his life had been transformed by the rapid spread and adoption of a digital payments system, the Unified Payments Interface, or UPI.
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