Selected Issues Papers

Artificial Intelligence in Qatar: Assessing the Potential Economic Impacts

By Tongfang Yuan

March 7, 2025

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Tongfang Yuan. "Artificial Intelligence in Qatar: Assessing the Potential Economic Impacts", Selected Issues Papers 2025, 018 (2025), accessed April 8, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229003919.018

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Summary

Qatar has been actively preparing to embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI), allowing it to lead its Emerging Market peers in AI readiness. Qatar’s AI exposure has increased significantly over the years, and increasing AI adoption is assessed to yield more opportunities than risks for the country’s labor force, thanks to the private sector’s contribution in increasing jobs that are more likely to benefit from AI-driven productivity gains. Scenario analyses suggest that increasing AI adoption, supported by policy reforms to boost human capital, innovation and domestic knowledge spillovers, could generate sizeable labor productivity gains over the medium term.

Subject: Labor, Labor force, Labor productivity, Production, Productivity

Keywords: AI adoption, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial intelligence in Qatar, Global, Labor demand, Labor force, Labor productivity, Potential of artificial intelligence, Productivity, Productivity gain, Qatar, Qatar's AI exposure, Skills

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