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SIP/2025/018
IMF Selected Issues Paper
Middle East and Central Asia Department
Artificial Intelligence in Qatar: Assessing the Potential Economic Impacts
Prepared by Tongfang Yuan
Authorized for distribution by Ran Bi
March 2025
IMF Selected Issues Papers are prepared by IMF staff as background documentation for periodic consultations with member countries. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on January 8, 2025. This paper is also published separately as IMF Country Report No 25/048.
ABSTRACT: 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.
RECOMMENDED CITATION: Yuan, Tongfang. 2025. ‘Artificial Intelligence in Qatar: Assessing the Potential Economic Impacts.’ IMF Selected Issues Paper (SIP/2025/018). Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund.
| JEL Classification Numbers: | J24, O11, O33, O53, Y40 |
| Keywords: | Artificial Intelligence (AI), labor demand, productivity, skills, Qatar |
| Author’s E-Mail Address: | tyuan14@alumni.jh.edu |
| JEL Classification Numbers: | J24, O11, O33, O53, Y40 |
| Keywords: | Artificial Intelligence (AI), labor demand, productivity, skills, Qatar |
| Author’s E-Mail Address: | tyuan14@alumni.jh.edu |
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SELECTED ISSUES PAPERS
Artificial Intelligence in Qatar: Assessing the Potential Economic Impacts
Qatar
Prepared by Tongfang Yuan 1
The author would like to thank Ran Bi for very helpful suggestions and comments.