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The IGP Working Paper Series presents our latest work on global prosperity, often before it appears in academic journals

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Published Working Papers

  

2024

  
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Mapping Livelihood Insecurity in east London: A guide to using secondary data to measure and map livelihood insecurity

Saffron Woodcraft, Jose' Izcue Gana, Rayhaan Lorgat, Will Temple, Rose Jump

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Livelihood Strategies in Ras Beirut After 2019: Making Ends Meet in Times of Economic Disaster

Authors: Mayssa Jallad, Rahaf Zaher and Nikolay Mintchev

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2023

 
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IGP 2021-22 Master’s Dissertation Special Issue, Part 1

Authors: Haqqani, Nyma; Herrebosch, Nathan; Jackson, Jane; Juma, Ismat; Kanaan, Faten

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Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Whole-Systems Approach to Prosperity

Authors: Henrietta L. Moore, Alexandra Boothroyd

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The Politics of International Assistance in Lebanon: An Evaluation of the IMF's Loan Conditions as a Pathway to Inclusive Growth

Authors: Balsam Gharib, Nikolay Mintchev, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher 

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Kenyan General Elections 2022: A game of pledges, promises and service to self-interest

Authors: Hannah Collins, Amos Tirra, Jaqueline McGlade, Henrietta Moore and Arno Scharl

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The 2022 Lebanese Parliamentary Elections: Between Traditional and Alternative Politics 

Author: Rahaf Zaher

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Vitality in work: stories from Ras Beirut vol. 3

Vitality in Work: Stories from Ras Beirut 
Lives and Livelihoods in Turbulent Times 
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Authors: Lara Sabra and Nessim Stevenson

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Connecting Communities: Evaluation of a pilot project aimed at promoting digital inclusion in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Authors: Penny Bernstock, Pratimas Singh, Sultana Rouf, Isral Amoah-Norman, Rayhaan Lorgat and Saffron Woodcraft

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Social protection for the 21st century: Towards a new politics of care

Authors: Henrietta L. Moore and Alexandra Boothroyd

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2022 

 
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Assessing vulnerabilities for urban recovery solutions in Beirut post-explosion


Authors: Pietrostefani, Elisabetta; Dabaj, Joana; Sleiman, Yara; Jallad, Mayssa; Maassarani, Sara; Charalambous, Efrosini

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Pathways to the ‘Good Life’: Co-Producing Prosperity Research in Informal Settlements in Tanzania - with Swahili translation
 

Authors: Woodcraft, Saffron; Osuteye, Emmanuel; Ndezi, Tim; Makoba, Festo D

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Prosperity for whom?

Systemic injustice and the UK economy

Authors: Henrietta L. Moore & Katrina-Louise Moseley

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Developing tools and evidence to deliver prosperity

Optimising for prosperity with a meta-framework for change
 

Author: John M. Stormonth-Darling

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Developing tools and evidence to deliver prosperity

Evaluating the World's First Development Impact Bond in the Education Sector: A Case Study of Educate Girls DIB

Author: Tarini Pancholi

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Developing tools and evidence to deliver prosperity

Employees driving green human resource management toward sustainable prosperity


Author: Patricia Tiimah Naya

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Embodied Experiences, Troubled Livelihoods: Ethnographic Observations from Ras Beirut


Author: Rahaf Zaher.  Edited with introduction by Nikolay Mintchev, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher 

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Building a green learning organisation: how employee-drive innovation can enable organisational sustainability transitions


Author: Beatrice R Bekar

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On the Brink in Ras Beirut: An Ethnography of Livelihood Struggles Amid Economic & Political Discord
 

Author: By Zainab Alawieh. Edited with introduction by Nikolay Mintchev, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher 

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Addressing the UK's livelihood crisis: Beyond the price of energy


Authors: Henrietta L. Moore and Alexandra Boothroyd

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2021

 
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Re-thinking livelihood security: why addressing the democratic deficit in economic policy-making opens up new pathways to prosperity


Authors: Saffron Woodcraft, Hannah Collins, Iona McArdle

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What is prosperity?
 

Authors: Henrietta L. Moore and Nikolay Mintchev

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Fintech, remittances and migrants' prosperity: A systematic review and exploration of the Mexican case


Author: Silvia Velasco

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Evaluating Deliberative Democratic Designs: Theory of Change and Citizens' Assembly Pilot in Lebanon


Author: Michael Tan

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A Pilot Citizens' Assembly on Electricity and Energy Justice in Hamra, Lebanon
 

Authors: Ala’a Shehabi, Muzna Al-Masri, Jessica Obeid, Marc Ayoub, Mayssa Jallad and Mariam Daher

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Ethnicity and prosperity in east London: How racial inequalities impact experiences of the good life
 

Authors: Efrosini Charalambous, Elisabetta Pietrostefani Saffron Woodcraft

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Assembling prosperity in a post-Covid United Kingdom: New approaches to levelling up


Authors: Henrietta L. Moore and Hannah Collins 

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Decentralised renewable energy: a pathway to prosperity for Lebanon?

 

Authors: Henrietta L. Moore, Hannah Collins, Diala Makki

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Universal Basic Prosperity working paper

Universal Basic Prosperity: Sustainable prosperity for the 21st century


Author: Andrew Percy

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2020

 
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Towards prosperity: Reinvigorating local economies through Universal Basic Services


Authors: Henrietta L. Moore and Hannah Collins

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Rethinking prosperity: Perspectives of young people living in East London


Authors: Hannah Sender, Mohammed Abdussamad Hannan, Luke Billingham, Jordan Isaacs, Daniel Occitti

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Finance, technology & displacement: towards a research agenda


Authors: Lauren Martin and Christopher Harker

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Vulnerability and Public Services in the Lebanese Context of Mass Displacement: a Literature Review


Prepared by: Hanna Baumann and Samar Kanafani

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Ambivalent Lines: Ethnographic Observation Of A Household Survey In Hamra, Beirut


Author: Soheila Shourbaji

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Identifying and understanding local priorities for developing an 'Economy of Belonging': A case study of eight areas in the UK


Authors: Henrietta L. Moore, Juan M. Moreno, Georgios Melios

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How effective are political cycles in the UK in the micro-level? 


Author: Georgios Melios

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Europe in crisis: political trust, corruption, and austerity


Author: Georgios Melios 

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2019

 
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Community Cryptocurrencies for Sustainable Prosperity: A case study of FairCoin


Author: Pritika Kasliwal

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Lost in Translation? An assessment of the SDGs as a basis for private sector action: A case study of palm oil 


Author: K. Tracey Campbell

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2018

 

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Data Audit: Requirements for Improving Measures and Outcome Indicators in Lebanon (2018)


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