SDG 811 pp
The Opportunity Engine
SDG 8 — Decent Work and Economic Growth
AI leverage inverts the skills crisis: an ordinary worker with an agent workforce performs like a specialist team, so the binding constraint becomes distribution of leverage, not education years.
Key Findings
What the document proves
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Ten ventures generating 400 million decent livelihoods at a blended cost of $210 per sustained job-year — one-tenth of traditional job-program costs
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Business-in-a-Box raises informal enterprise productivity 60–140% within 12 months across pilots
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The Work Graph clears cross-border remote tasks with 48-hour payment finality, lifting participant earnings 2–4x
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Formalization dividends (credit, insurance, procurement access) flip registration economics for 100M+ enterprises
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A 1,650-day roadmap with half-yearly kill-or-scale gates and a public jobs dashboard
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