8: How Can Nations Level Up?: The Regional Capability Mapping

Modern policy decisions are shaped by economic complexity, industry growth and sustainability. Today’s policymakers must respond to fast-changing conditions by focusing on local strengths and advanced manufacturing.

Whiteshield has created tools like the Regional Capability Index (RCI) to help design targeted economic strategies, using artificial intelligence (AI) to process ever greater levels of complexity. We also explore how countries can improve their roles in the global supply chain. We show how city planning can benefit from new technologies that help build stronger, fairer and more resilient urban areas.

We include a real-time case study in Nepal demonstrating how the Whiteshield tools can have an impact.