For the first Director's Seminar of the academic year, the Institute for Global Prosperity celebrated the publication of the second book in its ‘Global Prosperity Thought and Practice’ series, 'Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century'. The book sets out concepts, models, metrics and a new vision for shared prosperity in the twenty-first century and how it can be achieved for all. The volume, which is ...
In this five minutes video, Professor Henrietta L. Moore, Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, explains IGP's Vision and its realisations through a range of projects and how you can be involved in the conversation with a community of disruptive thinkers and practitioners: Fast Forward 2030 as a network of transformative entrepreneurs; Prosperity Co-laboratories (PROCOL) that work to prosper Africa, Lebanon, and the UK; and MSc programmes and student's society at UCL to...
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The ‘Connecting Communities’ inclusive broadband project is a digital Universal Basic Services (UBS) pilot aimed at tackling digital exclusion in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. In May 2022, the IGP was commissioned to undertake a final evaluation of the project’s second phase. The project formed part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Digital Inclusion Strategy, and was developed as a cross-sector partnership between the housing association Poplar HARCA, the LETTA Trust, T...London Prosperity Board PROCOL UK Prosperity Index Europe
IGP's Poet-in-Residence Cameron Holleran created a poem for the 'State of the Legacy' conference, interrogating a decade of 'Olympic Regeneration' in east London. Read a blog about the Conference here....Professor Henrietta L. Moore addresses the panel on a new understanding of prosperity at the Global Solutions Summit 2022 Prof. Moore took part in the ...
Is economic growth essential to human prosperity and wellbeing? Can it be reconciled with environmental sustainability? Or do the converging ecological crises we are now facing, from climate change to biodiversity collapse, compel us to rethink the imperative of economic growth? Professor Henrietta L. Moore recently took part in a public panel discussion which addressed these overarching questions, while also exploring what a world ‘beyond growth’ would actually look like, how we might get th...
IGP Director Professor Henrietta Moore's evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee's (EAC) inquiry in the House of Commons, on 'Aligning the UK's economic goals with environmental sustainability' Image cr...
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21 January 2022 Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its Fourth Annual Women in Macroeconomics Conference, just before Christmas, looking at who we mean by the ‘individual’ in macroeconomics, particularly when considering gendered roles and identities. In orthodox economics the decision-making agent is unequivocally the individual. If we enquire more about who she or he may be, we are told it is someone with their own tastes and preferences who makes their choices in splend...PROCOL Kenya Climate Emergency Africa
The gEOthermalKenya project, led by Omanos Analytics in partnership with Global Surface Intelligence (GSI), was funded through UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme. The project involved collaboration with the Kenyan National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Institute for Global Prosperity's PROCOL Kenya programme ...RELIEF PROCOL Lebanon Energy Food Mass Displacement Public Services Infrastructure Middle East
The RELIEF Centre and Catalytic Action have been working together to Assess Vulnerabilities in Post-Blast #Beirut. This project comes as a medium-term assessment, six months after the blast, to shed some light on the changing landscape of local vulnerabilities following immediate efforts mobilised on the ground. Conducting a survey of over 400 households i...RELIEF Mass Displacement Prosperity Index Arts Middle East
Performances from the RELIEF Centre 2021 conference Working Through Crisis: Innovations, Possibilities and Limitations of Research in a Volatile Lebanon. Lebanon is experiencing several intersecting crises: infrastructural incapacity, economic instability, a global health pandemic, a suspended refugee problem, and severe government corruption culminating in an explosion on 4th August at the Beirut port, from which the city still struggles to recover. Simultaneously, a series o...Post-Covid Live addresses the nature of society, the kind of government and the form of economy we will need and want after the crisis. It is no longer possible to endorse the market as the primary mechanism for creating value and solving problems. What kind of values will guarantee quality of life for all and how will they be created and defended? How will the major challenges of our times be tackled - the ones we cannot quarantine ourselves from - climate change, social inequalit...
Post-Covid Live addresses the nature of society, the kind of government and the form of economy we will need and want after the crisis. It is no longer possible to endorse the market as the primary mechanism for creating value and solving problems. What kind of values will guarantee quality of life for all and how will they be created and defended? How will the major challenges of our times be tackled - the ones we cannot quarantine ourselves from - climate change, social inequal...
Post-Covid Live addresses the nature of society, the kind of government and the form of economy we will need and want after the crisis. It is no longer possible to endorse the market as the primary mechanism for creating value and solving problems. What kind of values will guarantee quality of life for all and how will they be created and defended? How will the major challenges of our times be tackled - the ones we cannot quarantine ourselves from - climate change, social inequality, fo...
Post-Covid Live addresses the nature of society, the kind of government and the form of economy we will need and want after the crisis. It is no longer possible to endorse the market as the primary mechanism for creating value and solving problems. What kind of values will guarantee quality of life for all and how will they be created and defended? How will the major challenges of our times be tackled - the ones we cannot quarantine ourselves from - climate change, social inequality, fo...
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Post-Covid Live addresses the nature of society, the kind of government and the form of economy we will need and want after the crisis. It is no longer possible to endorse the market as the primary mechanism for creating value and solving problems. What kind of values will guarantee quality of life for all and how will they be created and defended? How will the major challenges of our times be tackled - the ones we cannot quarantine ourselves from - climate change, social ine...Fast Forward 2030 Climate Emergency
Fast Forward 2030 brought together 3 impact entrepreneurs from 3 continents to discuss the different business ecosystems in their regions, and what needs to happen for entrepreneurs to make the SDGs a reality across the world. Featuring members from Fast Forward 2030's 3 global branches: Solveiga Pakstaite, founder ...Marie Williams, a PhD student at IGP and CEO of Dream Networks, presents on her co-design approach of Levelling the playing field to further enable inclusive play for all the urban host community of Kitengela, Kenya. Emergencies of forced displacement are prevalent across th...
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The RELIEF Centre in partnership with Catalytic Action present life stories from Bar Elias, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon highlighting the relationship between refugees, host communities, and the city.Directed by Fabio PetronilliProduced by Catalytic Action. Funded by The Relief CentreThis video is part of a research collaboration between the RELIEF centre and CatalyticAction. It is a visual representation of the work done in Bar Eli...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticAction with UCL staff since August 2018. With this project local researchers learned how to use film-as-research while researching the causes and effects of Lebanon’s infrastructural crisis. Salam Ya Sham trained local researchers on film making, supported the filming process and edited the short documentary films....RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticAction with UCL staff since August 2018. With this project local researchers learned how to use film-as-research while researching the causes and effects of Lebanon’s infrastructural crisis. Salam Ya Sham trained local researchers on film making, supported the filming process and edited the short documentary films....RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticAction with UCL staff since August 2018. With this project local researchers learned how to use film-as-research while researching the causes and effects of Lebanon’s infrastructural crisis. Salam Ya Sham trained local researchers on film making, supported the filming process and edited the short documentary films....RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticAction with UCL staff since August 2018. With this project local researchers learned how to use film-as-research while researching the causes and effects of Lebanon’s infrastructural crisis. Salam Ya Sham trained local researchers on film making, supported the filming process and edited the short documentary films....London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index
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The IGP and the London Prosperity Board launch the ProsperityImage: Kid Circus on Unsplash...The first in the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity's Soundbites series. Professor Henrietta Moore, Head of the Institute for Global Prosperity, opens up the debate on prosperity and discusses the reasons for starting the new institute....
