AI for smarter public investment and asset governance
Open-source AI tools and curated data for ministries of finance, PIM practitioners, and peer-learning networks.
$4 trillion+
Annual global public investment — about 4% of world GDP flows through governments, projects, and programs.
30–50%
Estimated share lost to inefficiency — an implicit tax on fiscal capacity, growth, and jobs.
3 AI Advisors
PIM Professor, Coach, and Doctor — AI agents grounded in curated global and country knowledge.
Source: World Bank Group PIM-PAM Global Solutions (2026).
Why, What, and How?
Navigating the intersection of Public Finance and AI Revolutions
AI tools and capabilities are developing rapidly. This site is intended as a dynamic resource that identifies and demonstrates ways in which good-practice AI applications can be deployed to use cases intended to improve the way public sectors, whether at National, Sub-National, or State-Owned Enterprise levels, deliver public investment program/project flows and management non-financial asset stocks (real infrastructure, land, and property, as well as relevant digital information) outcomes (e.g., public services, revenue mobilization, risk reduction that translate into prosperity and jobs creation).
Applied well, AI in the public sector can deliver significant returns on investment (ROI). Ministries of Finance can play a leading role in raising awareness, testing applications, and learning about AI adoption opportunities and innovations. Harnessing artificial intelligence includes leveraging open-source technology and open and geospatial data to improve how governments invest in public infrastructure. The site brings together a set of global digital public good tools and data repositories to help policy makers and PIM-PAM practitioners in both advanced and developing country contexts achieve better results in terms of development impacts and value for money.
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How it all fits together
The pim-pam.ai PIM Professor, Coach, and Doctor Resources are AI agents that build on the curated data sources and knowledge below. The Professor distills global good practice, the Coach reviews national rules and their application, and the Doctor diagnoses existing project portfolios to help make them healthier. Together they leverage the digital public good Global PIM-PAM Knowledge and Peer Learning. Country-level practitioners can use these demonstrations to orient native-language and in-house AI for PIM-PAM deployments.
pim-pam.ai PIM Professor, Coach, and Doctor Resources
AI agents that draw on the curated data sources and knowledge below
Global PIM Knowledge
AICountry PIM Policy Profile Repository
AIPublic Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database
AIGlobal PIM-PAM Knowledge and Peer Learning
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Global PIM-PAM Knowledge and Peer Learning
pim-pam.net provides a one-stop resource about how relevant policies and practices can be improved to yield better development outcomes, including economic growth and jobs. The emphasis of the site is to nurture productive and value-for-money public investment programs and projects, as well as the effective utilization and maintenance of real infrastructure, land, and property, and non-financial assets. Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer powerful tools to realize these objectives, as assessed by measurable outcomes. In turn, the resources seek to mitigate the risks of poorly designed and implemented programs and projects, as well as address challenges such as climate change. Real-world peer learning insights from advanced and developing country settings.
Browse the knowledge base pim-pam.netGlobal PIM Knowledge
Search and analyze guidance from leading international institutions. Extract insights from a curated set of global best practice documents on public investment management, a full collection of World Bank Public Finance Reviews (PFR)/Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs), public IMF Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMA), and Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments. Global good practices and country experiences at your fingertips.
Search the global PIM corpus pim-ai-global.vercel.appCountry PIM Policy Profile Repository
Global Public Investment Management (PIM) Policies AI Repository provides a systematic online resource for the comparative review of de jure institutional contexts, as well as online decision support for core and climate-informed project preparation, resourcing, and delivery. The PIM Policies repository is a dynamic resource designed to capture all relevant national and, as pertinent, sub-national PIM policy guidelines.
Browse country policy profiles pim-policy-profiles-ai.vercel.appPublic Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database
The PIM Doctor diagnoses existing public investment project portfolios and helps make them healthier. The Geospatial Planning and Budgeting (GPB) Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) tool evaluates the financial and economic feasibility of a project, while the Global Public Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database compiles open-access reference projects — providing a comparative, interoperable data standard for feasibility appraisals, including risk assessments of potential cost and time overruns, as well as the ability to monetize socio-economic benefits.
Explore the appraisal database gpbp-ecba.appLatest Insights
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World Bank AI Repository: Practical solutions to accelerate development
AI Repository brings together AI use cases and practical implementation insights from across the development community. Each use case highlights the approach taken, implementation considerations, and lessons that can inform efforts in other contexts. Please explore these resources and contribute relevant evolved cases in Public Financial Management (PFM), and PIM and PAM specifically.
Feb 15, 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Better Public Investment Outcomes
See a presentation delivered by Kai Kaiser to the Public Expenditure Management Peer Assisted Learning network (PEMPAL) in Paris in February 2026. This network facilitates the exchange of professional experience and knowledge transfer among public finance management (PFM) practitioners across Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries. The session made clear that there is a strong interest in solutions that can enhance the work of budget officials, but a significant need for awareness-building and application demonstrations to foster adoption of these capabilities over time.
Nov 20, 2025
The Case for Open-Source PIM Systems
Why governments should embrace open-source tools for public investment management — and how to get started.
Oct 5, 2025
Geospatial AI for Infrastructure Monitoring
Using satellite imagery and computer vision to track the physical progress of public infrastructure projects.
Country Engagement
How is your country using AI to improve PIM outcomes?
The World Bank Group’s PIM-PAM engagement tracker maps how countries are applying functional digitalization and AI to strengthen public investment management — and the practical benefits they are seeing on the ground.
If your ministry, agency, or peer network has evolving priorities, emerging practices, or measurable outcomes to share, we would love to hear from you.
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