Course: Global Prosperity Beyond GDP

As the European refugee crisis worsens, the UN summit in New York to agree on the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) couldn’t come at a more pressing time. Mass movement …

In this video, Jonathon Porritt, co-founder of Forum for the Future, introduces us to the Sustainable Development Goals, and gives his reaction to them. Later, we’ll hear from other experts …

How can we communicate about the direction the world is going, and agree on an idea of what progress looks like? This is where frameworks of change come in. A …

Our way of thinking about prosperity is changing, and with good reason. In the last decade, the conventional notion of prosperity as material wealth, measured by rising levels of GDP, …

One unique thing about the IGP’s approach to research, as demonstrated here, is the use of members of the community in building research. Unlike official surveys, where something external is …

In this video, Professor Henrietta Moore introduces the London Prosperity Board. The London Prosperity Board was launched by the IGP in 2016. It’s a collaboration between universities, charities, businesses, local …

Professor Henrietta Moore has been studying the links between agro-environmental changes and wellbeing in rural communities in Kenya for 35 years. In the video above, Dr Constance Smith who leads …

We approach prosperity from a global perspective. We undertake long-term research to find out what works, and what the challenges of attaining sustainable, equitable global prosperity might be. We do …

The RELIEF Centre explores ways of building prosperous lives for people in the context of displacement. Professor Diana Laurillard is leading the strand of this project which examines the potential …

There are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world. This means that 1 in every 122 people on the planet is now either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking …

There are different obstacles to prosperity around the world. In Lebanon, one of the main ones is mass displacement. In this video, Dr Nikolay Mintchev explains why.

There are two main problems with the GDP approach to measuring prosperity. Firstly, it is only material. We have explored the problem with this in great detail. We do need …

Now we’ve had a chance to explore a few post-GDP measurements, lets try and design something together. Comment below on what you think the most effective way of quantifying prosperity …

In this video Michael Green discusses the fact that there is no clear correlation between GDP and social progress, providing empirical proof that “GDP is not our destiny”. He shows …