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The IGP and the London Prosperity Board launch the ProsperityImage: ...Hannah Sender
PhD student, Hannah Sender, reflects on Professor Saskia Sassen's public lecture, 'A Third Emergent Migrant Subject Unrecognised in ...Dr Nikolay Mintchev
…things aren’t what they used to be before; there is no sense of community anymore; people only care about personal gain, not ab...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Public Services
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PhD student, Hannah Sender, reflects on her fieldwork on adolescent mental health in Bar Elias, Lebanon....London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Public Services Work
Maria Paz Levy
Maria Paz Levy, volunteer at the IGP, reports from the launch of the IGP's first Prosperity Index f...David Bent
In mid-February I chaired an all-day conference on the "SDGeneration - A Citizen Science Movement"....Dr Hanna Baumann
It is not every day that academics plant trees, paint pavements, or install park benches. But that is exactly what I, and other resea...Monica Basbous, Nadine Bekdache and Camillo Boano
This blog post was originally written for the UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit website and can b...Tim Ndezi, Festo Makoba and Dr Saffron Woodcraft
How research methods and ethics produce pathways to prosperityWhat does it mean to be prosperous and live wel...Annelise Andersen
‘Cities occupy just 3% of the Earth’s land but account for 60 to 80% of energy consumption and at least 70% of carbon emissions’, Profess...Social Prosperity Food Public Services Work
A state service provision could help our society cope with a changing job market. And best of all: ...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
Smart cities are built upon a foundation of sustainable prosperity that actually improves the quality of life for all and their exper...Social Prosperity Food Public Services Work
Over the past 30 decades, prosperity – understood as material wealth, social wellbeing, equality, justice, inclusion and environmental su...Social Prosperity Food Health Public Services Work
Idea for Universal Basic Services developed by the Institute for Global Prosperity to form a “central pillar” of Labour’s po...RELIEF Mass Displacement Africa America Asia Europe Pacific
Dr Nikolay Mintchev
Migration and displacement are taking place on an unprecedented scale. The movement of people throughout the world is diversifying the de...KNOW London Prosperity Board PROCOL Kenya PROCOL UK RELIEF Prosperity Index Africa America Asia Europe Pacific
Sarah Nisi
Nineteen Londoners collect research data for the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) from hundreds of households in their neighbour...Charlie Stott
Our newest addition to the IGP team shares his experiences with Extinction Rebellion and how he feels that society could shift in a p...RELIEF Mass Displacement Public Services Middle East
Dr Ala'a Shehabi
Against the backdrop of MACAM's 2nd Biennale of C...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
Earlier this year, the RELIEF Centre collaborated with the Migration Leadership team and the Arab Council for Social Sciences to convene ...Juan Manuel Moreno
On Tuesday 15 October, I was in Cardiff attending the event Re-thinking Prosperity for Wales: A multi-stakeholder dialogue about new ...Johnny Stormonth-Darling
The Teach-OutIn October, thousands of dedicated individuals, concerned for the fate of the planet, staged o...PROCOL Kenya Prosperity Index Africa
“Sustainable prosperity is a global challenge: the world needs a...PROCOL Kenya Prosperity Index Africa
“PROCOL Kenya has an ambitious agenda: we want to determine and then re-shape global understandings of ‘what matters’ to peoples...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Public Services Europe
Juan Manuel Moreno
On Tuesday 19th November, IGP Founder and Director, Professor Henrietta L. Moore, attended the Social Macroeconomics Hub works...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Public Services Europe
Sarah Nisi
Local organisations incorporate IGP’s findings from the London Prosperity Index work into their policies to better reflect the views ...David Bent
David Bent imagines a future where prosperity has been changed dramatical...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index
This document describes the methodology for developingand constructing the Prosperity Index – the UK’s firstcitizen-led prosperity metric...PROCOL Kenya Prosperity Index Africa
Can Kenya lead the way to a new kind of prosperity in Africa? And can Maasai warriors teach western tycoons leadership the world needs fo...RELIEF Prosperity Index Middle East
Soheila Shourbaji
Maps, Anxieties and Reconceptions: An Ethnography of Citizen Social Science in Hamra’s Prosperity Index Projec...Financing Prosperity Social Prosperity
Tianzi Li
How can we deal with a broken financial system that enriches the few at the expense of the many? How can we ensure people have the ne...Social Prosperity Food Public Services Work
Andrew Percy
There is now not a single party in the UK that is not proposing a dramatic expansion of public services. The ship of state has turned, af...Social Prosperity Climate Emergency Public Services
Andrew Percy
The IGP is taking forward its pioneering work on UBS and creating a future for all in the UK. New experimental work will be at the co...Professor Jacqueline McGlade
The more we learn about pollution and its impact on human health and nature, the more we must see stopping pollution as an ethical im...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
Recent research shows that Lebanon could witness an increase of 1.2 to 3.2 degrees in temperatures in areas that are already very arid an...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index
This report describes four years of research in East London to re-think what prosperity means and develop the UK’s first citizen-led pros...David Bent
“Our goal is to foster transformative institutions that create marked changes in the habits of the wider world around us and...Charles Stott - 18 March 2020
"And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned ne...Financing Prosperity PROCOL UK Social Prosperity Food Health Public Services Work
Juan Manuel Moreno responds to the UK Government Budget 2020 and COVID-19 rescue packages
“Unprecedented measures for unprecedented times.” This was the phrase used by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday 20 March as he announced t...Professor Jacqueline McGlade
Deep in Tinderet forest, a data revolution is taking shape. Community members from the Maasai Mara and across the Mau Forest are working ...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
The RELIEF Centre in partnership with Catalytic Action present life stories from Bar Elias...Marie Williams
Countries throughout the world agree that it is a human right for all children to play - as stated in Article 31, The United...Patrick Vickers
After crises, the boundaries of what is politically possible are redrawn. After the Second World War, the NHS was established and million...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Post-Covid Live addresses the nature of society, the kind of government and the form of economy we will need and want af...Dr Matthew Davies
Just like the climate crisis, environmental degradation and the persistence of poverty, the Covid-19 crisis exposes the worst failings of...Ghina Mohsen
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. “This is not just a public health crisis, it is a crisis t...London Prosperity Board Social Prosperity Prosperity Index
Dr Matthew Davies
Over the last year the climate crisis has inspired considerable public protest including civil disruption by Extinction Rebellion and the...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 UC...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticA...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticA...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This project worked with Bar Elias local researchers who were recruited and trained in social science research by CatalyticA...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
Dr Hanna Baumann & Hannah Sender
In Lebanon, which has experienced a series of political crises in recent years, refugees and citizens alike have been negatively affected...Bridget Storrie
Bringing Natural Resource-Related Peacebuilding Down to EarthIn 1937 the British travel writer Rebecca West visited the Stan Ter...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Hannah Collins
In a letter sent to ever...Andrew Percy
At the IGP we have always included food in our definition of Universal Basic Services (UBS) and for many it is the most difficult service...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
New polling finds the vast majority of Britons want to prioritise quality of life over economic growth, but what exactly is it that const...Dr Nikolay Mintchev
The Covid-19 crisis is going to be a gamechanger for the UK’s ethnic and racial politics. Four years after the 2016 Referendum on EU memb...Cameron Holleran
A poem by Cameron Holleran, poet-in-residence at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP)“The sooner we star...Social Prosperity Food Health Public Services Work Europe
The Social Prosperity Network published the UK's first ...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...Social Prosperity Public Services Work Europe
Professor Henrietta L. Moore
How should we reform our economies and bring people back to better work, aligned with major social, political and economic challenges, no...Financing Prosperity Public Services Europe
Dr Christopher Harker
“Community work is never easy, but it is worth it” said one member of the Money Advice and Education (Money A+E) steering group at their ...Social Prosperity Public Services Work
Professor Henrietta L. Moore
The economic impact of the Covid-19 outbreak has been immense. There has been a worldwide call to action in response to the Covid-19 pand...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
The destruction of nature is the driving force of the current dominant progress story, which is why we need to change the story. As more ...Social Prosperity Climate Emergency Mass Displacement Europe
Juan Manuel Moreno
On the morning of Thursday 21 May, I was preparing me a maté a...Hannah Sender
Young people in Hackney are witnessing massive changes in their communities, and this affects their ability to prosper in their own homes...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Andrew Percy
It seems the most natural thing in the world to think that once a society has reached the levels of wealth that we see in most modern adv...Yara Younes
While the COVID-19 pandemic proceeds, strict measures have to be taken by authorities to control the spread of the virus and protect grou...Professor Jacqueline McGlade
Every piece of plastic discarded, whether it is a food packaging, cigarette end, milk carton, synthetic fabric, baby wipes and diapers, o...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
The government has announced a £3bn stimulus for green buildings and for improving the energy efficiency of public buildings. At a time w...Financing Prosperity Mass Displacement Middle East
James Shraiky & Dr Christopher Harker
How do people impacted by migration and displacement finance their lives and how do technologies shape such practices? We know that there...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 typical...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 f...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 ...Professor Jacqueline McGlade
The oldest business model in the world is the circular bioeconomy. Nothing wasted, everything used and reused, with Nature as the powerho...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
Dr Samar Maqusi , Kae Ohene-Yeboah, Mariam Daher
In the era of Covid-19, the call to imagine feels more important than ever.‘To imagine’ means to picture something yo...Hannah Sender & Joana Dabaj
Lockdown is beginning to lift in Lebanon, but COVID-19 cases continue to rise and to exacerbate the terrible economic conditions that thr...Dr Ala’a Shehabi
Economies across the world are on course to face the worst fall in GDP figures since 2008. In the UK, GDP fell by ...PROCOL Kenya Climate Emergency Africa
Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe and Dr Matthew Davies
‘When led by farmers, Regenerative Agriculture offers the potential to create a new farming future for Africa that addresses multiple...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Europe
To effect meaningful change in a neighbourhood takes more than an idea and good intentions. It is vital to establish a clear picture of t...Soheila Shourbaji
Citizen social science opens up an ethnographically intriguing space. In 2019, I worked with RELIEF’s citizen science team in Hamra while...Social Prosperity Public Services
Andrew Percy
New Zealand election offers glimpse into the futureNew Zealand's 102 day stretch without any new Covid cases three months before...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
Dr Maha Shuayb
RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND CORRUPTION RENDERED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SYRIAN CHILDREN “A LOST GENERATION”.The World Refugee Day t...Dr Efrosini Charalambous
“We may all be weathering the same storm, but we are not in the same boat”, commented ...Dr Eileen Kennedy
MOOCs are usually defined as Massive Open Online Courses. At the RELIEF Centre we are shifti...Charlie Stott
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will require a concerted effort from everybody on the planet but while governm...Patrick Vickers
When Professor Henrietta Moore...Cameron Holleran
This is not an obituary, though I’ll write one for every polar bear whose floe I’ve stolen writing proseand poesy, dying at a spe...Dr Ala’a Shehabi
The RELIEF Centre is launching a citizens' assembly on Energy on 23rd October 2020The recent devastating explosio...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
Dr Ala'a Shehabi
A pilot of the first Citizens’ Assembly launched with its first session on Friday 23 October 2020 under challenging conditions. Th...Nikolett Puskas
On the night of 10th March, I arrived back in Beirut from Egypt on literally one of the last planes allowed into the country. I ...Dr Ala'a Shehabi
Over the past two weeks, members of a Citizens Assembly in Lebanon have concluded work deliberating energy justice, and making key decisi...Hannah Collins
The question many people are asking as we enter the next lockdown here in the UK is what did we learn last time? And, thinking to the fut...Allan Lavell, Colin McFarlane, Henrietta Moore, Saffron Woodcraft, and Christopher Yap
The transmission of the coronavirus is determined by the organisation of societies; by the flows of goods and people, of knowledge and re...Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
Acting as a new coalition of leaders catalysing actions to drive alternative pathways to prosperous futures, the Africa Assembly gathered...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
Samar Maqusi
Reflections from Burj el Barajneh camp and Beirut cityIt has been a year since I last visited Lebanon to conduct my field resear...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
This working paper reviews the literature on infrastructural vulnerabilities in the Lebanese context of mass displacement to answer the f...Steven Solasta
During the ‘first wave’ of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 90% of the people sleeping rough on the streets of England were offered accommodat...Tony McKenzie
Reflections on the IGP - British Academy workshop on Citizen Social ScienceOn December 2, 20...Alexandra Thorne
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across our country and planet - creating both immense chaos and confusion in its wake - a...Professor Henrietta L. Moore and Hannah Collins
Professor Henrietta Moore and I ask in a recent article...Charles Stott
On the 8th December I joined 73 think tankers, youth activists, educational lobbyists and other civil society leaders for the launch of N...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Professor Henrietta L. Moore
In 1945, the UK’s welfare state was set up to address the want, need and misery caused by unemployment. Seventy-five years later, prior t...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
...Ying Wang
On November 7, 2020, I joined a group of colleague students on a public beach in the north coast of Hainan province, China. It was a Sund...Professor Henrietta L. Moore and Dr Ala'a Shehabi
On 4 August 2020, a massive explosion at Beirut’s port killed at least 200 people and caused up to $15bn in damage to buildings and infra...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Juan Manuel Moreno
The uncertainty and disproportionality of the Covid-19 crisis have highlighted the critical importance of local public services in suppor...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Policy brief...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
Juan Manuel Moreno
The prosperity of individuals and communities cannot be reduced to aggregate analyses of income, wealth, productivity, or GDP; these issu...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
The independent review on ...Professor Jacqueline McGlade and Professor Philip Landrigan
Ocean pollution is widespread, worsening, and poses a clear and present danger to human health and wellbeing. But the extent of this dang...Hannah Collins
The complexity of challenges we are faced with demands a rehaul of the 2017 Industrial Strategy. In a ...Silvia Velasco Arellano
What is behind prosperity and urban regeneration projects for young people? For Suraya, a young Camden resident, there is a sense of belo...Suzy Kirby
Prosperity: How can we define it, measure it, achieve it? ...RELIEF Mass Displacement Middle East
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The historical placement of research questions is key for the people whose lives and livelihoods are at st...Kitty Parker Brooks
In grappling with the concept of ‘transformative entrepreneurship’ I have consistently found myself returning to two key questions: What ...Farah Khokhar
With limited digital and food access becoming imminent realities for many people during the Covid-19 pandemic, changing what we prioritis...Professor Henrietta L. Moore and Patrick Vickers
22 April 2021 This Earth Day, we harbour some hopes that we may be witnessing the beginning of a regenerative re...Fast Forward 2030 RELIEF Middle East
27 April 2021 Fast Forward 2030 Lebanon have launched a podcast all about Lebanon and the sustainable development goals. ...Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
30 April 2021 Re-thinking the role of small-holder farmers in the future of food production: Prosperity ...Fast Forward 2030 Climate Emergency
...Charlie Moir
12 May 2021 The decentralised PAYG solar business model encapsulates many of the conceptual challenges encounter...RELIEF Mass Displacement Prosperity Index Arts Middle East
Performances from the RELIEF Centre 2021 conference Working Through Crisis: Innovations, Possibilities and Limitations of Researc...Jack Isaacs
25 May 2021 Investing in local social enterprise is the best way to make progress towards the UN’...Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
As the climate ...Silvia Velasco
17 June 2021 The world’s reliance on technology is changing the way we live, influencing our economic, socia...Hannah Collins and Farah Khokhar
The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated and exposed inequalities worldwide, highlighting the damaging impact of poor infrastructure, t...RELIEF PROCOL Lebanon Public Services Arts Infrastructure
Data from the RELIEF Centre and CatalyticAction project Assessing Vulnerabilities in Post-Blast Beirut is now featured in the ...Andrew Percy
24 June 2021 The pace and scale of change needed in the coming decades exceeds current ambitions. At present the...Georgios Melios
28 June 2021 Looking back, 2020 was a year of momentous social, political and economic disruptions, ranging from...Juan Manuel Moreno
1 July 2021 In May 2019, I began working with Professor Henrietta L. Moore on the ...Ala'a Shehabi and Kae O Yeboah
In March 2021, we launched a staff and student forum for the BAME members of the Bartlett community. The formation of this group was part...Andrew Percy
5 July 2021 Until societies accept responsibility to provide the basic infrastructure of universal safety they a...Howayda Al-Harithy, Abir Eltayeb, and Ali Khodr
07 July 2021 Lebanon has witnessed multiple waves of displaced people throughout its recent history, inc...Farah Khokhar
The experience of systemic racism and inequality has not only put Black and Minority ethnic groups (BAME) at greater risk of dying from C...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 ...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Europe
Sarah Nisi
6 August 2021 UK’s first longitudinal study of prosperity using citizen-led metrics will produce robust,...London Prosperity Board Prosperity Index Europe
Rayhaan Lorgat
We read a great deal about the importance of innovation in productivity, jobs, growth, UK competitiveness and prosperity, but we rarely r...PROCOL Kenya Climate Emergency
Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
28 September 2021 On Thursday 16th September the IGP co-organised an interdisciplinary workshop with...Angus Armstrong
29 September 2021 The Institute for Global Prosperity welcomes the Rebuilding Macroeconomics research ne...Dr Christopher Harker
12 October 2021 Finance often conjures up images of glass towers, (white) men in suits, extravagant wealth and e...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
14 October 2021When Nobel prize-winner Simon Kuznets declared in 1934 that “the welfare of a nation can scarce...Professor Jacqueline McGlade
26 October 2021 Marine litter and plastic pollution are accumulating in the world’s oceans at an unprecedented r...Professor Robert Constanza
25 October 2021 Coastal communities around the world are facing increasing threats from tropical cyclones. Clima...Professor Jacqueline McGlade
5 November 2021 Global challenges like climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, in addition to a growing,...Cameron Holleran
2 November 2021 IGP's Poet-in-Residence Cameron Holleran reflects on the roles of researchers as they in...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
15 November 2021 The Autumn Budget delivered in the last week of October failed to make significant headway and ...Professor Henrietta L Moore
29 November 2021 The climate crisis is a crisis of such depth and significance that it cuts through many ...PROCOL Kenya Climate Emergency Africa
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Dr Matthew Davies, Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe and Roberta Pismel Chapchap
14 December 2021 How we think about designing and implementing change to sustainably tackle Global Challenges is of pressing con...Maura Muldoon
4 January 2022 What’s that noise? Seventeen years ago, billions of newly hatched periodical cicadas of ...Andrew Percy
17 December 2021 On the 110th anniversary of National Insurance, the IGP is releasing its report on ...PROCOL Kenya Climate Emergency Food Africa
Dr Matthew Davies, Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe and Roberta Pismel Chapchap
10 January 2022 In the ...Mariam Daher
12 January 2022 Lebanon's severe economic crisis and political instability has had a devastating impact on people's livelihoo...PROCOL Kenya Climate Emergency Africa
Dr Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
20 January 2022 85% of agricultural output across Africa is produced by small-holders. What do they need to simultaneousl...PROCOL UK Prosperity Index Europe
Dr Saffron Woodcraft
28 January 2022 Black and minority ethnic groups reported lower scores in a study using new measures of prosperity devise...Dr Ida Kubiszewski
17 January 2022 Ecosystem service valuations are becoming more common as both the public and the private sector are realizing tha...Rebuilding Macroeconomics Prosperity Index
21 January 2022 Rebuilding Macroeconomics held its Fourth Annual Women in Macroeconomics Conference, just before Christm...London Prosperity Board PROCOL UK Public Services Europe
Dr Saffron Woodcraft
2 February 2022 East London based housing association ...Dr Saffron Woodcraft
25 January 2022 “To me, the word prosperity means harmony” ...Professor Henrietta Moore
3 February 2022 Tax reform and Green universal basic services could help both level-up the country and build a more sustainable, ...Elisabetta Pietrostefani, Joana Dabaj, Yara Sleiman, Mayssa Jallad, Sara Maassarani and Efrosini Charalambous
The case of Mar Mikhael neighbourhood On the 4th of August 2020, a large am...Dr Bridget Storrie
The blog was written on 24th February. ...Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi
23 March 2022We cannot be happy alone. When we live in a region where t...Andrew Percy
6 April 2022During Covid the importance of a network of integrated and supporting public services took on greater meanin...Dr Saffron Woodcraft
12 April 2022A narrow definition of prosperity as material wealth measured by economic growth and rising GDP has dominat...Dr Bridget Storrie
29 April 2022 Attending a sustainable prosperity workshop as a mining specialist can be fraught. I was once asked by the...Social Prosperity Climate Emergency Arts Europe
...Dr Sumrin Kalia
May 13 2022 On Saturday, 9th of April 2022, two minutes before midnight, the vote of no-confidence against the sitting p...Dr Alessandra Radicati
27/05/2022 What ways of working are best for ensuring the longevity of relationships between citizen social scientists a...Social Prosperity Public Services Europe
IGP Director Professor Henrietta Moore writes for Environment Journal along with Sarah Davidson, CEO of Carnegie UK ...Social Prosperity Prosperity Index Public Services Europe
IGP Director Professor Henrietta Moore calls for empowering decision making by local communities through the tra...Financing Prosperity London Prosperity Board Social Prosperity Climate Emergency Prosperity Index Public Services Europe
Professor Henrietta Moore and the IGP co-chair the Think7 Task Force on ‘social cohesion, economic transformation and open societ...London Prosperity Board PROCOL UK Prosperity Index Europe
Analysis by the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) has revealed that the Government’s aim of levelling-up the UK will fail if ...Rayhaan Lorgat
Is the Governments levelling-up agenda really doing anything to tackle rising inequality and soaring inflation? ...Adrien Plomteux
25 July 2022 Online Conference at UCL: Discussing just sustainable futures at the Development S...Israel Amoah-Norman
7 July 2022 It seems as if the UK government has another plan up its sleeve. On the 15th July 2021, Prime Minister Bor...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
28 July 2022 On 26 July 2022, the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer spoke on the BBC Today programme ...Dr Erol Saglam
16 September 2022 In summer 2022, while interviewing treasure hunters as part of my ongoing research project on alternat...Dr Sumrin Kalia
22 September 2022 Pakistan is drowning. The country has been hit with extreme flooding due to rapidly melting glacie...PROCOL UK Public Services Infrastructure Europe
Rayhaan Lorgat
On the 21st of September, the IGP’s Dr Saffron Woodcraft and Rayhaan Lorgat delivered a presentation on the key findings and r...Gillian Chan and Rayhaan Lorgat
On the 12-13th September, the Bartlett’s Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) and ...Angus Armstrong
30 September 2022 Much ink has been spilled this week on how the UK Government’s mini-budget either ‘spooked’ or ‘frightened’ the...Gillian Chan
11 October 2022 What does prosperity in Hackney Wick and Gascoyne Estate look and feel like? Citizen social scientists Alexis...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 'Olym...Fatemeh Sadeghi and Vrinda Narain
17 October 2022 On Sept 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in Tehran, Iran, while in police custody. Amini...William Fletcher
18 October 2022 In May this year, the Economist published an article describing ‘sustainability’ as one of ‘the woolliest words i...Mara Torres Pinedo
24 October 2022 Student partners: Amanda Kartikasari, Hemant Kumar, Ismat Juma, Keneth Franco, Maria José Ascenzo...Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Fatemeh Sadeghi, Sumrin Kalia, Mezna Qato
27 October 2022 On Friday October 7th, the members of Takhayyul, an ERC Project at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) ...Balsam Gharib
08 November 2022 Lebanon has entered yet another political impasse following the end of President Aoun’s term on October...Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen
8 November 2022 People around the world have faced significant challenges to building and maintain...Eve Njau
10 November 2022 All eyes are currently set on Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt ahead of the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (...Eve Njau
16th November 2022 The onset of the rainy season usually means the start of the planting season not only in the Mau Forest Comple...Ida Kubiszewski, Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Paul Sutton
15th November 2022 The world population has just hit a new record of 8 billion. Scientists and experts h...Professor Robert Costanza
23 November 2022 Fifty years ago, a book was published that foresaw a world where economies were focused on impr...Jose Izcue Gana
25 November 2022 A team of Citizen Social Scientists recently held an event to showcase the findings of the ...Social Prosperity Public Services
28 November 2022 Professor Henrietta L. Moore and Alexandra Boothroyd ...Mezna Qato
30 November 2022 Arms outstretched, he hollered from across the street, “Where’s my parade? Where’s the crowd?”...Rahaf Zaher
6 December 2022 Since November 2019, local banks in Lebanon have been imposing a Capital Control scheme, unratif...Alexandra Boothroyd
12 December The UK is suffering a sustained crisis, as the cost of living and energy prices...Balsam Gharib
15 December 2022 The banking sector in Lebanon has shifted from being perceived as the bastion of the country’s ...Professor Robert Costanza
10 January 2023 The ...Alina Marm
26 January 2023 Your waste travels. Quite a lot, actually. It travels down rivers. It travels through oceans - a...Eve Njau
1 February 2023 December in Kenya is usually sunny and seen as a great precursor to the festive holidays. However, this year’s se...Cameron Holleran
27 February 2023 A poem written by IGP's Poet-in-Residence Cameron Holleran, in response to Professor Henrietta Moore's recent le...Professor Robert Costanza
06 March 2023 Societies, like individuals, can get trapped in patterns of behavior called social traps, or “societal addictions,”...Eve Njau
17 March 2023. An ever-growing consumer demand is putting tremendous pressures on natural capital. In Kenya, and esp...Eva Lamorgese
21 March 2023. Lebanon's severe economic crisis and political instability is having a devastating impact on people's livelihoods. The cri...PROCOL UK Social Prosperity Prosperity Index Public Services Europe
Penny Bernstock, Pratimas Singh, Sultana Rouf, Israel Amoah-Norman, Rayhaan Lorgat and Saffron Woodcraft The...PROCOL UK Social Prosperity Prosperity Index Public Services Infrastructure Europe
The ‘Connecting Communities’ inclusive broadband project is a digital Universal Basic Services (UBS) pilot aimed at tackling digital excl...Alexandra Boothroyd and Rayhaan Lorgat
27 March 2023 The ‘Connecting Communities’ inclusive broadband project is a digital Univers...Abdul and Zainab
31 March 2023 Although quality of life in Coventry Cross has generally improved, barriers to prosperity persist in changed form. Racism n...Alexis Charles
3 April 2023 Parts of Hackney Wick and Fish Island are dotted with seemingly obscure shops surrounded or even fronted by layers o...Terry Regan
14 April 2023 In 2001, plans to regenerate the Custom House estate were first shared with residents. The plan was part of the bro...Twinkle Jayakumar and Terry Regan
17 April 2023 Twinkle and Terry, two local residents and citizen social scientists from Beckton and Custom House, Newham, conduct...Victorine Ngobo
18 April 2023 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘basic’ means ‘forming an essential foundation or starting po...Lorraine Owusu
19 April 2023 Sometime-y spaces “Before you enter the estate, you’ll notice there are two lampposts – the func...Zeinab
20 April 2023 Unaffordable spaces, unequal living Given the mix of social housing, shared ownership and private housi...Balsam Gharib
09 May 2023 Lebanese parliamentarians are yet to agree on a solid socioeconomic recovery plan capable of s...Gillian Chan
11 May 2023 “It’s not about empowering people, it’s about holding space”...Nicola Vimalanathan
18 May 2023 In a recent conversation with a friend who was about to move to another country, she bemoaned the state of the UK, a...Robert Costanza
22 May 2023 An EU conference on sustainable wellbeing provided a real vision for a future that’s...Fahri Karakas
25 May 2023 When we think of Islamic Art, we tend to picture intricate geometric patterns graced with divine calligraphy in awe-i...Dr Onyaglanu Idoko
13 June 2023 How do individuals and organisations respond to an innovation such as generative AI? Do we resist it for as long as ...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
22 June 2023 A 21st century economy needs to produce and to assure supply of the essential goods on which we all depend: soil, wa...Rahaf Zaher
27 June 2023 ...Hannah Collins and Amos Tirra
28 June 2023 Elections around the world are often a fraught time of false promises, misinformation, dramatics an...Twinkle
29 June 2023 Sarah (not her real name) is 9 this year. She loves comic books and likes to draw. Drawing helps he...Narjess Hachena
04 July 2023 It’s almost 9pm on a beautiful summer day and I have just returned home from a flagship event durin...Robert Costanza (IGP), Brian Fath, Bojie Fu, Alan Hastings, B. Larry Li, Brendan Mackey, Olaf Meynecke, Michelle Maloney, William J. Mitsch, Zhiyun Ouyang, Sergei Petrovskiy, Alexia Stokes, Jigmi Thinley, Ouyang Zhiyun
1 August 2023 We - an international community of environmental researchers and practitioners - met in Australia ...Gillian Chan
14 August 2023 Housing inequality, the changing face of racism, inadequate support for people with special e...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
28 July 2023 IGP Director Professor Henrietta Moore writes for the Times Higher Education (THE), on how universities can play an ...Hannah Collins
25 August 2023 A new Transformation Map on Inequality produced by a research team at the Institute for Global Prosperity for the ...Dareen Sayyad and Reema Shbeeta
12 September 2023 In Palestine, where the elements of a true national state do not exist, the policies of the Pa...Mayssa Jallad
29 August 2023 What research methods do we need to address today’s pressing public health c...Andrew Percy
8 September 2023 Can economic growth address both poverty and climate change? Andrew Percy discusses McKinsey’s ...Eve Njau
22 September 2023 The Prosperity Framework of the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP), which advocates for engaging the stakeh...Rayhaan Lorgat
28 September 2023 On Tuesday 12th September, I attended the launch of the Southwark Land Commission‘s landmark repor...Reema Shbita
26 October 2023 During our res...Balsam Gharib
27 October 2023 On 27 September 2023, PROCOL Lebanon organised a half-day workshop that brought together prominent stakeholders ...Dareen Sayyad
17 November 2023 In our recent research on the concept of prosperity in Palestine, we faced a great challenge. We found ourselve...Maysa Mohamoud
27 November 2023 Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to co-host a showcase event for a citizen social science projec...Nikolaos Tzivanakis
27 November 2023 The financial crisis highlighted the shortcomings of traditional measures of a country's prosperity. The ...Sam Tamayo
27 November 2023 Over the years, Lebanon has gone through massive difficulties across different areas from ...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
28 November 2023 IGP Director and Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network (CGLN) writes on her hopes and expectati...Nawal Hamad
06 December 2023 There are many scenes of war in Gaza. The killing and bombing is broadcast live by the media: Houses destroyed ...Sam Tamayo and RP Duterte
18 December 2023 Earlier this year, we talked about starting a podcast based on our experiences as students under the MSc Prosper...Sam Tamayo and RP Duterte
29 December 2023 As we delved into the world of transformative entrepreneurship, we were initially daunted by the complexities in...Professor Henrietta L. Moore
08 January 2024 IGP Director and Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network (CGLN) shares her thoughts on the outcome ...Sam Tamayo and RP Duterte
11 January 2024 Whereas we began this podcast with the intention of understanding prosperity and how we can ...Rahaf Zaher
23 January 2024 On 22nd November 2023, Lebanon celebrated its 80th anniversary of independence from the...Eva Coulibaly-Willis
22 January 2024 A text I have turned to recently is anthropologist André Chappatte’s recent book In Search of Tunga: Pr...Sam Tamayo and RP Duterte
2 February 2024 Last week, we released the final episode of our mini-series, ...Nikos Tzivanakis
14 February 2024 The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), such as ChatGPT from Op...Sumrin Kalia
15 February 2024 On 8th February elections were held in Pakistan, under the military tutelage. These elections we...Mirong Chen
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23 February 2024 As social entrepreneurs, our goal is to make a positive impact in the community we care about. To ensure our sol...Joana Dabaj
28 February 2024 We are very honoured that the work of Catalytic Act...Hannah Sender
25 April 2024 Post-natal depression affects around 20% of women in low- and middle-income countries – nearly twice as many as wom...Juan Manuel Moreno
26 April 2024 Early in February this year, the Edinburg University Press published ...Balsam Gharib
29 April 2024 The staggering imbalance in global and national wealth distribution has caused significant human and environmental ...Amanda Kartikasari
30 April 2024 For Laura Dempsey, founder of Volunteers for Future, volunteerin...Nikos Tzivanakis
15 May 2024 The ...Mona El Hallak and Mayssa Jallad
24 May 2024 On Sunday, May 19, 3-year-old Taym Douaihy celebrated his birthday at the ...Hannah Sender
28 May 2024 The Marjaa//Limbo urbanisms: Violence, urban change and multi-modal methodologies workshop, held in UCL on 1...Fatemeh Sadeghi
30 May 2024 Feminists in the Global South have stepped out of the conventional territories of ‘women’s matters’ into more fund...