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CISPS | Postgrowth and Wellbeing

Climate Change, Inequality & Social Policy Seminars

Part of a series of seminars on ‘Climate change, inequality and social policy’ which are hosted by LSE (the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI), the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and the new International Inequalities Institute (III). Read more

25 May '17

CISPS | Climate change, inequality and social policy

Climate Change, Inequality & Social Policy Seminars

The first of this new seminar series will feature Prof. Ian Gough, Visiting Professor at CASE and Associate at Grantham. Read more

3 Nov '16

Well-being dynamics and poverty traps

Research article

by Teevrat Garg

on 26 July, 2016

Abstract A sound understanding of poverty traps – defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to the poor’s equilibrium behaviors—and... Read more

Well-being dynamics and poverty traps

Working paper

by Christopher Barrett, Teevrat Garg and Linden McBride

on 20 January, 2016

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical evidence on single and multiple equilibria poverty traps at the macro, meso, and, especially, micro levels. Read more

Monitoring local well-being in environmental interventions: a consideration of practical trade-offs

Research article

by Matthew Agarwala, Giles Atkinson and Susana Mourato

on 4 November, 2015

Paper considers the practical trade-offs policy makers and practitioners must navigate when utilizing the concept of well-being in environmental interventions. Read more

Consumption smoothing and the welfare cost of uncertainty

Working paper

by Jonathan Colmer and Yonas Alem

on 4 September, 2015

When agents are unable to smooth consumption and have distorted beliefs about the likelihood of future income realisations, uncertainty about... Read more

GDP (Gathering Different Preferences) – Old acronym, a fresh interpretation?

Commentary

by Lin Yang

on 5 November, 2014

Original article posted on UNDP Human Development Reports Imagine for a moment that you are a baker. Now what would... Read more

OECD’s Green Growth Strategy

Policy Seminars

The presentation outlined the Green Growth Strategy at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This strategy aims to... Read more

22 Nov '11

Sir David King – Time for a New Policy Paradigm: resources, technology and human well-being

Public Lectures

LSE Sustainability in Practice lecture, co-hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Chair: Dr Simon... Read more

21 Jan '10

George MacKerron – What effect does the local environment have on subjective wellbeing? Spatial experience sampling with the ‘mappiness’ iPhone app

Seminars

Part of the LSE-Imperial Grantham PhD seminar series (Michaelmas term) Speaker: George MacKerron Read more

15 Dec '10