22 September 2023 Moore, Henrietta L; Boothroyd, Alexandra; Social protection is a central function of modern welfare states, yet it is defined and enacted differently across contexts, shaped by respective histories, political climates and institutions. Broadly, the term refers to the mechanisms and policies designed to mitigate vulnerability and shocks (Ellis, Devereux & White, 2009; ILO, 2020; World Bank, 2021; FAO, 2017; European Commission, 2020). A formal call for unive...
14 August 2023 Balsam Gharib, Nikolay Mintchev, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher Four years into Lebanon’s crippling economic crisis and the country’s ruling political parties are yet to agree on a path towards financial and economic recovery. With declining support from international donors, Lebanon has sought an IMF loan in an attempt to par...
28 June 2023 Amos Tirra, Hannah Collins, Jaqueline McGlade, Henrietta Moore and Arno Scharl The relatively new democratic system in Kenya is complex and often negotiable, further complicated by the shifting landscape and impact of social media. This working paper explores the history of democracy in Kenya and presents the instrumentalisation of ethnic identities by key political figures using Social Cleavage Theory. A web-based a...
23 June 2023 Allan Lavell, Colin McFarlane, Henrietta L. Moore, Saffron Woodcraft and Christopher Yap There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do the SDGs offer a pathway to equality? Specifically, we focus on the potentials of the SDGs as a ...
21 June 2023 Henrietta L. Moore and Hanna Baumann The notion of ‘vulnerability’ has gained growing traction in a range of different fields, from disaster risk reduction to feminist theory. This increased academic use has been paralleled by a rise in the use of the term as an operational concept in humanitarian and development policy. Using the incongruent deployments of the term as a starting point, this article examines the assumptions underpinning definition...
This article by PROCOL Lebanon researcher Rahaf Zaher describes the political and livelihoods situation in Lebanon leading up to the parliamentary elections in May 2022. The article examines electoral campaigns and the use of social media and traditional media by politicians, residents, and expatriates to express their opinions and stands. From the analysis of electoral speeches, it appeared that major traditional politicians relied on emotionality and sectarian nerve-pulling to entice suppor...
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Penny Bernstock, Pratimas Singh, Sultana Rouf, Israel Amoah-Norman, Rayhaan Lorgat and Saffron Woodcraft The ‘Connecting Communities’ Project aims to improve digital inclusion in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets through a digital Universal Basic Services (UBS) pilot: a viable and integrated approach to providing universal access to public goods and services. The project was developed through a partnership between Poplar HARCA, the LETTA Trust, Tower Hamlets Cou...By Rahaf Zaher. Edited with introduction by Nikolay Mintchev, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher Lives and Livelihoods in Turbulent Times is a working paper series aiming to understand the changing nature of livelihoods in Lebanon today. The papers in this series formulate an account of how the multi-faceted crisis that Lebanon is currently going through is experienced by people and communities. The aim of the analyses is to develop a cl...
6 February 2023 Henrietta L. Moore and Alexandra Boothroyd Warnings that the UK is facing a ‘crisis of care’ are growing in volume. NHS wait times have reached a record high, and staff shortages across the social care workforce are predicted to rise to 500,000 by the end of 2030, as poor working conditions and the lowest wages of almost any sector in the UK make these careers increasingly unsustainable. The shortfall is being met by the mo...
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28 November 2022 Professor Henrietta L. Moore and Alexandra Boothroyd The UK is suffering a sustained crisis, as the cost of living and energy prices soar. In recent months, and across successive changes in leadership, the government has announced various policies to mitigate the effects, yet they have failed to act systemically. The government’s response so far has reflected a reactive fixation on the rising price of energy; ...19 November 2022 Alawieh ZainabThis paper is a study of how people in Ras Beirut are coping at a time of severe economic crisis. During Zainab Alawieh’s research, which took place between April and September 2021, she roamed around different neighbourhoods within the Ras Beirut area – Hamra, Ain Tineh, Raouche and Qouraitem – and conducted more than 40 surveys with residents and business o...
8 October 2022 Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen This research asks how locally embedded organisations impact people and create pathways towards more inclusive and sustainable prosperity. Prosperity is understood as a concept that takes on specific meanings in specific localities, while encompassing ‘secure and good quality livelihoods, good public services, a clean and healthy environment, planetary and ecosystem health, a political sy...
5 October 2022 Rahaf ZaherEdited with introduction by Nikolay Mintchev, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher Lives and Livelihoods in Turbulent Times is a working paper series aiming to understand the changing nature of livelihoods in Lebanon today. The papers in this series formulate an account of how the multi-faceted crisis that Lebanon is currently going through is experienced by people and communities. The aim of the analyses is ...
27 October 2022 Beatrice R Bekar The COVID-19 pandemic is emerging as a window of opportunity, urging governments and organisations worldwide to accelerate the transition towards a green economy. Despite the attempts towards a green transition, transforming current practices and embedding sustainability within daily work routines still presents organisations with major challenges. These are partly due to a traditionally top-down, siloed and re...
The aim of this dissertation is to evaluate Development Impact Bonds (DIBs), a subset of Impact Bonds, through a case study of Educate Girls DIB (EGDIB). The study takes into account the effect of EGDIB on its beneficiaries, its service providing social enterprise and the overall sectorial ecosystem. The research explores the question, “What is the impact of development impact bonds (DIBs) on its various actors?”. The research presents the complexities and challenges involved during the desig...
This paper explores employees’ place in Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and Sustainable Prosperity. It examines the role of GHRM in organisational sustainability initiatives, emphasising the employee’s role in sustainability decision-making. GHRM facilitates the achievement of sustainable practices by using every employee’s interface. Its goal is to raise sustainability awareness among employees through HR practices that are environmentally friendly and promote long-term and efficient ...
Change is persistent, and provisioning for prosperity in this complex dynamic world is not a simple task. Sustaining the conditions which enable certain prosperities can come at the expense of others whilst undermining the biophysical foundations required for all. In this paper I explore the tension between this need for sustainment and the inevitability of change by examining several conceptualisations and formalised frameworks for change which range from the holistic to the mechanistic. I f...
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Analysis by the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) has revealed that the Government’s aim of levelling-up the UK will fail if it only focuses on factors traditionally believed to hinder prosperity. By applying metrics from the UK’s first citizen-led Local Prosperity Index (the Index) to existing secondary datasets, the IGP has established that all nine English regions score low on at least one of the five factors that people require to live secure and prosperous li...Henrietta L. Moore and Juan M. Moreno (2022) Demography has driven increases in agricultural productivity and is in the limelight once again with questions about how we intend to feed 9 billion people on the planet. The scale of this challenge and the ecological threat from collapsing resources has generated a sense of impending crisis, but remarkably little action. The frames of reference tend towards climate change and the Anthropocene, but perhaps a more fruitful app...
The think piece is the result of a research collaboration between the London Borough of Newham and University College London’s Institute for Global Prosperity. It will inform Newham Sparks’ future programme of work and influence wider national and regional policy to drive the growth of the Data Sector in Newham, in London as a city and the UK as a whole. The research is exploring the potential scale of the Data Sector in Newham, and in London and the UK, examining s...
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Pietrostefani, Elisabetta; Dabaj, Joana; Sleiman, Yara; Jallad, Mayssa; Maassarani, Sara; Charalambous, Efrosini; (2022) On the 4th of August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of the city of Beirut exploded, causing at least 200 deaths, over 7,000 injuries, US$3.8-4.6 billion in material damages, and the displacement of over 300,000 people. Lebanon was already suffering from a rapidly escalating financial crisis, further aggravated by the outbreak o...By Andrew Percy This paper reviews the path of taxation in developed societies as they progressed from industrial economies to technically advanced economies over the 20th century. It demonstrates how attempts to suppress taxation, while preserving development status, are connected to insecure livelihoods, unstable finance, climate destruction, and weakened reciprocity.The paper proposes establishing strong reciprocity by reforming tax, fiscal, and welfare arrangements, to ali...
By Andrew Percy, with economic modelling by Howard Reed This report paints a clear picture of the comprehensive tax reform that political will could deliver.To simplify incomes tax, we propose a system of “National Contributions”. A smoothly progressive rate structure, applied to a flat definition of incomes that includes both active and passive incomes. Anchored to average income, a system of National Contributions broadens the tax base and creates mutual interest in prosperi...
This working paper explores the London Prosperity Index survey data through an ethnicity lens and provides some preliminary findings concerning on the relation between racial inequality and prosperity. The quantitative data analysis is framed around three thematic issues, identified in qualitative research as critical to experiences of prosperity in east London: livelihoods, feelings about the local area and feelings about the future. ...
This working paper was originally submitted as a dissertation as part of the MSc in Global Prosperity. It will explore, through a systematic review, to what extent fintech—financial technologies—are an instrument to transform migrants and remittance recipients’ foundations of prosperity, understood as the baseline for people to thrive, linked with secure jobs, income, financial stress, financial and digital inclusion, and local income equality. Additionally, it explores what are the e...
This working paper is about why we need new theories both about what prosperity means and entails in the 21st century. To redefine prosperity is to challenge both the structural features of our economies and the value premises on which they are built. We are conce...
Over the past decade European citizens’ confidence in different political institutions has declined sharply. Using data from the Eurobarometer (2005-2018) and hierarchical modelling, the paper combines micro and macro characteristics to identify the importance of perceived corruption and austerity measures in this process. This paper documents that corruption is a significant determinant of trust in national governments in Europe, particularly in countries where austerity was more prominent. ...
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This working paper reviews the literature on infrastructural vulnerabilities in the Lebanese context of mass displacement to answer the following questions:• What are the particular infrastructural vulnerabilities at stake in contemporary Lebanon?• Where are the intersections of vulnerabilities caused by displacement and those related to public services, for both migrants and hosts?• How is vulnerability conceptualised in the literature, and what role are public services ...Financing Prosperity Mass Displacement
This paper asks how people finance life when displaced, as a precursor to building pathways to more inclusive and sustainable prosperity on the move. The approach taken seeks to examine both lived experiences of displacement and the actors, institutions and technologies shaping those lives. The paper selectively reviews existing literatures to explore two key foci: (1) the role that various technologies play in financing movement and (2) the obligatory relationships through which people make ...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
As we enter a new decade the future is increasingly uncertain. This paper focuses on interpreting existing research on localism and the foundational economy in light of recent discussions concerning Universal Basic Services. We argue that localisation of basic services should form the basis of a new industrial strategy for the 2020’s. Investment in the infrastructure of care, health, education, transport and communication would increase people’s capacities, capabilities and opportunities for ...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Europe
In this paper, we argue that prosperity is understood and experienced in different ways by different age groups. Young people are typically less involved in research about their prosperity than adults. Their views and experiences are therefore less likely to be considered in policy decisions than adults’. However, young people – and particularly adolescents between 14-24 years old – are significantly affected by societal transformation, and are capable of reflecting on and responding to that ...Social Prosperity Food Health Public Services Work Europe
This is the second report of the Institute for Global Prosperity's Social Prosperity Knowledge Network charged with developing innovative ideas upon which to build a sustainable welfare state that meets the specific challenges of the 21st Century.This report explores the hypothesis that strengthening and extending universal services is an effective way of tackling poverty and improving wellbeing for all. It draws on academic literature including conceptual thinking, political and econ...This working paper was originally submitted as a dissertation as part of the MSc in Global Prosperity. It examines the potential of “community cryptocurrencies” as a tool to reframe the economy for sustainable prosperity. It aims to contribute to the significant body of literature on community currencies for sustainability by examining the role of cryptocurrencies within this space.Cryptocurrencies are a new innovation which have been criticised as unsustainable speculative digital ass...
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The Social Prosperity Network published the UK's first report on Universal Basic Services in October 2017.The proposal for ‘Universal Basic Services’ represents an affordable alternative to a so-called ‘citizens’ income’ advocated by some economists, according to the expert authors working for the Institute for Global Prosperity....This desk study forms part of the preparatory work for a PhD on investor engagement with companies on corporate responsibility issues, taken as those framed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs outline ambitions widely accepted as improving the prosperity of populations in both developed and developing countries. Looking at these goals in greater detail however highlights the difficulty in matching the government-designed indicators of success to points of articulation with r...
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This report describes four years of research in East London to re-think what prosperity means and develop the UK’s first citizen-led prosperity metrics....London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index
This document describes the methodology for developingand constructing the Prosperity Index – the UK’s firstcitizen-led prosperity metrics that measure what local people say matters to their prosperity.The Prosperity Index has been developed by the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) with citizen scientists, localresidents, community organisations in five neighbourhoods,and partners in the London Prosperity Board....