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Manifesting Inclusive Practices and Closing the Participation Gaps: IGP’s Work on Ensuring Livelihood Security

Health Work Europe

With limited digital and food access becoming imminent realities for many people during the Covid-19 pandemic, changing what we prioritis...

Socially distanced Christmas - the new normal?

Professor Henrietta Moore and I ask in a recent article...

(Almost) Ending Homelessness in the Midst of a Pandemic

During the ‘first wave’ of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 90% of the people sleeping rough on the streets of England were offered accommodat...

Reflections on COVID-19 in Cities: Connecting Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity

The transmission of the coronavirus is determined by the organisation of societies; by the flows of goods and people, of knowledge and re...

Thinking about recovery: Learnings and priorities in the wake of Covid-19

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...

Same storm, different boats: how racial inequalities impact prosperity

Health Prosperity Index Europe

“We may all be weathering the same storm, but we are not in the same boat”, commented ...

Adolescent Lives: The power of photography

Health Middle East

Lockdown is beginning to lift in Lebanon, but COVID-19 cases continue to rise and to exacerbate the terrible economic conditions that thr...

Women in power: Female leadership and public health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is impacting everyday lives, communities, economies, and exacerbating already existing inequalities. Some co...

A pandemic in the age of inequality

Health Mass Displacement Middle East

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...

Can we imagine a future of many futures?

Climate Emergency Health Africa Europe

Just like the climate crisis, environmental degradation and the persistence of poverty, the Covid-19 crisis exposes the worst failings of...

Prosperity and Playfulness

Health Mass Displacement Africa

Countries throughout the world agree that it is a human right for all children to play - as stated in Article 31, The United...

‘The times they are a-changing’, but are they?

Financing Prosperity PROCOL UK Social Prosperity Food Health Public Services Work

“Unprecedented measures for unprecedented times.” This was the phrase used by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday 20 March as he announced t...

Labour’s embrace of UBS “can renew social contract”

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...

Adolescent Lives - Reviewing our Findings, and Looking to the Future

PhD student, Hannah Sender, reflects on her fieldwork on adolescent mental health in Bar Elias, Lebanon....

Health Podcasts

SD Podcast

Coronavirus: The Whole Story: Could COVID be the great equaliser?

02 October 2020 The 'Coronavirus: The Whole Story' podcast highlights UCL's interdisciplinary expertise on Covid-19 - focusing on...

Health Data

Universal Basic Services: Theory and Practice

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 for the future: A proposal for Universal Basic Services

Social Prosperity Food Health Public Services Work Europe

The Social Prosperity Network published the UK's first ...