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The Asymmetric AI Dividend: Labor, Education, and Public Services in Emerging Economies

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  • Olaniyi Evans

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping labor markets, education systems, and public services at a pace that outstrips existing governance capacity in emerging economies. Drawing on current institutional data and peer-reviewed evidence, this article argues that the AI dividend is structurally asymmetric: emerging markets face roughly 40% job exposure with weaker complementarity than advanced economies, compounding inequality in the absence of deliberate policy. Kenya's global leadership in ChatGPT adoption signals demand-side readiness, while Africa's sub-1% share of global data-centre capacity signals a deepening supply-side deficit. Proactive investment in reskilling, public compute, and algorithmic accountability is the price of inclusion.

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  • Olaniyi Evans, 2026. "The Asymmetric AI Dividend: Labor, Education, and Public Services in Emerging Economies," Hequation Review, Hequation, vol. 3(1), pages 1-7.
    • Handle: RePEc:heq:heqrev:v3y2026i1a1
    DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.32397192
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    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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