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....