Thinking that moves policy

Research, indices and commentary from Whiteshield's economists, policymakers and technologists.

News & media

Reports & indices

Book · Edited volume

Governing the Future

10 policy questions in the age of AI economics, edited by Fadi Farra.

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Index · 2026

Global Trade Resilience Index 2026: Trading Through Fragmentation

How well countries can preserve trade continuity amid systemic fragmentation: Germany, France and the Netherlands lead the ranking.

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Index · 2026 · Davos

Global Labour Resilience Index 2026: Jobs in the Crossfire

Released with IHC & CEMS at Davos, labour-market resilience across 120 economies amid AI and trade fragmentation.

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Report · 2025

The Societal Impact of Weight Loss: United Arab Emirates

Modelling the health, economic and social returns of tackling obesity in the UAE, across three intervention scenarios to 2031.

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Report · 2025

The Societal Impact of Weight Loss: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Modelling the health, economic and social returns of tackling obesity in Saudi Arabia, across three intervention scenarios.

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Index · 2025

Global Trade Resilience Index 2025: Navigating Trade Wars

A resilience ranking of global freight and trade flows across 100+ countries, stress-tested against a fragmenting trade system.

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Index · 2025 · Davos

Global Labour Resilience Index 2025: The Transformative Impact of AI

9th edition, with Google & CEMS: 70+ indicators across 118 countries on how AI is reshaping labour markets.

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Index · 2024 · Davos

Global Labour Resilience Index 2024: A Call for Climate-Friendly Labour Markets

136 economies ranked, how climate change and green-transition policy are reshaping labour resilience.

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Index · Inaugural · 2023

Global Trade Resilience Index: Economic Security & Sustainability, Can the Twain Meet?

Whiteshield's first GTRI, launched at COP28: 58 indicators across 136 economies, by product and by partner.

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Book · 2023

Quantum Governance: Rewiring the Foundation of Public Policy

Fadi Farra and Sir Christopher Pissarides reframe public policy around the citizen, the quantum unit of development.

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Index · 2023 · WGS

Global Labour Resilience Index 2023: Uneven Recovery

136 economies ranked at the World Government Summit, mapping a two-speed post-pandemic recovery.

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White Paper · 2023

The Metaverse: Policy Implications for a New Digital Frontier

With the Digital Cooperation Organization, policy considerations for a human-centric, accessible and inclusive metaverse: competition, data privacy, intellectual property, safety and inclusion.

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White Paper · 2022

Reinventing Urban Planning

The use of more advanced tools for scenario planning in a data-rich environment, rethinking how governments plan cities as the world rapidly urbanises.

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Index · 2022

Global Freight Resilience Index 2022

Presented at the World Government Summit: Singapore leads again; Germany returns to the top 10.

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White Paper · 2022

Trade Impact 2.0: Facilitating Trade through Public-Private Partnerships

A white paper on impact monitoring, econometric methods for measuring how PPPs reshape trade, jobs, and growth.

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Index · 2022

Global Labour Resilience Index 2022: Stagnating Resilience

Five years of near-flat rankings, a widening gap between leaders and laggards, with the USA leading on adaptive capacity.

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Index · 2021

Global Labour Resilience Index 2021: The Resilience of Work amid COVID-19

A new capabilities framework, with Oxford Saïd & IFOW: Switzerland leads as Europe dominates the top 10.

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Index · 2020 · Davos

Global Labour Resilience Index 2020: The Geography of Work

145 economies across 11 dimensions, why where jobs are created matters down to regions and cities.

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Index · 2019 · Davos

Global Labour Resilience Index 2019: Unlocking the Full Potential of Work

123 economies ranked on resilience to technological disruption: Singapore, Switzerland and the USA lead.

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Videos & episodes

Dubai Eye 103.5: Ruya Partners on AI investment in Whiteshield
Thomas Flynn on Dubai Eye: The Economic Impact of Obesity in the GCC
Economic Talks with Raed, featuring Professor Simon Evenett
Economic Talks with Raed, featuring Sergei Guriev

Essays & analysis

Fadi Farra
Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
AI Economics

Introduction to AI Multiplier and Production Function

1 Apr 2026

Fadi Farra argues that AI acts as a multiplier rather than a traditional input, reshaping how capital and labour translate into outcomes, with impact hinging on compute, institutional absorption and the policy environment.

Raed Safadi
Raed Safadi
Partner & Chief Economist
Resilience of Freight

Strategic Tariffs, Tactical Allies: Mapping Post–Liberation Day Trade Zones

28 Jul 2025

Since the launch of the United States’ “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, 2025, the global trade landscape has undergone a fundamental shift. What began as a protectionist…

Hugo Zlotowski
Hugo Zlotowski
Quantum LEAP Lead
AI Economics

Bridging the Data Gap in Policymaking

10 Apr 2024

How AI and alternative data, from satellite imagery to night-light intensity, close the government data gap.

Gianmarco Mazzocchi
AI Economics Lead
Regulation for Technology

Whiteshield & OpenAI on pushing the boundaries of AI Economics

29 Oct 2024

Whiteshield participated in an innovative event held by Dublin City Council and OpenAI as part of the European Capital of Smart Tourism program, showcasing how AI can revolutionise…

Whiteshield
Insights
Regulation for Technology

Whiteshield announces global partnership with Google Cloud

20 Sep 2024

Now as Google Cloud partners, Whiteshield and Google Cloud will collaborate to unlock job creation by personalising actions for job seekers and leveraging the capabilities of Google Cloud.…

Tom Flynn
Partner
Regulation for Technology

Regulating the Wicked: Resilience for AI

15 Mar 2024

The explosion of generative artificial intelligence applications, like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and Sora, producing expert computer code, visually stunning images, and human-like conversations, has fueled scenarios of job…

Raed Safadi
Raed Safadi
Partner & Chief Economist
Resilience of Freight

Navigating the future: SMEs and the digital economy at the WTO 13th Ministerial Meeting

1 Mar 2024

The session centred on “Innovation & Digital Transformation” and featured speakers from both public and private sectors. Dr. Antonio Feraco, Dr. Sarah Meinert, Richard Fattal, and Amel Chadli…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Quantum Governance

Whiteshield Webinar: Quantum Governance: A 21st century approach to enhance citizen lives

29 Feb 2024

Whiteshield hosted a global webinar during the World Government Summit on February 14th, discussing a new era of citizen-centric policies outlined in the recently launched book Quantum Governance.…

Anthony O'Sullivan
Partner & Director
Resilience of Jobs

Whiteshield's Collaborative Workshop: Shaping the Future of Sharing Economy

5 Feb 2024

On 30th January, 2024, Whiteshield, in partnership with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, orchestrated an impactful workshop that…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
ESG

What is wrong with ESG? Lights and shadows of an emerging standard

6 Nov 2023

Consumers of all ages now demand socially and environmentally responsible products and services and use their purchasing powers to reflect these preferences. Investors have followed suit with meaningful…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
ESG

ESG: Don’t be late to the party

6 Nov 2023

The focus on ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance, standards has rapidly increased in recent years, driven both by compliance requirements and a growing awareness that it can provide a competitive…

Raed Safadi
Raed Safadi
Partner & Chief Economist
ESG

Critical raw materials – a blind spot of policymakers in the transition to net-zero

6 Nov 2023

“Humanity has mined about 700 million tonnes of copper to date. This same amount of copper was already expected to be consumed over the next 20 years based…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Quantum Governance

Explore the Quantum Learning (Q), the building block of the Equation of Development.

15 Sep 2023

In this video, we hear from Fadi Farra, one of the book’s authors and Managing Partner at Whiteshield, about the building block of development Quantum Learning (Q) and…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Quantum Governance

The Energy (E) block of the Equation of Development & what it means for Governments to be effective

15 Sep 2023

Our Quantum Governance book explains the Energy (E)=(PxLxAxN) block of the Equation of Development (D= Energy(E) x Quantum Learning(Q) as a function of a country or society’s policy…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Quantum Governance

The Equation of Development: A framework for policymakers aiming to impact individuals’ lives.

15 Sep 2023

Read more on Quantum Governance here.

Anthony O'Sullivan
Partner & Director
Trust & Decentralisation

The Gig Economy: A new challenge for policy makers

22 Aug 2023

The gig economy offers flexible and attractive new opportunities for income generation while filling a gap in service provision

Ronaldo Souza
Ronaldo Souza
Principal
Resilience of Freight

Whiteshield Trade Accelerator – boosting trade impact with fast results

16 Aug 2023

I – A new Approach to Trade

Anthony O’Sullivan
Partner & Director
Regulation for Technology

Introduction to LLM models and their impact on public policy

4 Aug 2023

Anthony T. O'Sullivan, Partner at Whiteshield, explains how large language models work and what they mean for public policy.

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Quantum Governance

Whiteshield announces publication of ‘Quantum Governance’ book

5 Jul 2023

A book pioneering citizen-centric global progress and rewiring the foundation of public policy

Anthony O'Sullivan
Partner & Director
Regulation for Technology

Regulating Artificial Intelligence

26 Jun 2023

Whiteshield examines the challenge of regulating artificial intelligence and its impact on public policy.

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Quantum Governance

Fadi Farra, Managing Partner & Director on Quantum Governance- Series One

14 Feb 2023

Read more on Quantum Governance here.

Whiteshield
Insights
Resilience of Freight

Trade Impact 2.0: Facilitating trade through Public-Private Partnerships

20 Sep 2022

Country experiences and empirical studies show that private investment and integration into global markets for goods, services and labour go hand in hand and reinforce each other as…

Fadi Farra
Founder & CEO
Resilience of Jobs

Whiteshield joins Harvard Business Review to discuss job market resilience

16 May 2022

Key points of Whiteshield’s Global Resilience Index (GLRI) 2022 were discussed during a webinar hosted and moderated by the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and MIT Technology Review. Whiteshield…

Whiteshield
Insights
Trust & Decentralisation

The case for citizen-centric societies

19 Apr 2022

Shocks bring with them the opportunity to ask the questions of what went wrong and why. When doing so, two macro parameters stand out: the need for trust…

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