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Best-selling author, musician, commentator and social scientist Arthur Brooks joins Legatum Institute Board of trustees.
The Legatum Institute attended the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town on 4th and 5th September 2019.
New report on poverty highlights the scale of the challenge facing the new Prime Minister
New Index shows U.S. prosperity is rising but would benefit further from policies to improve mental health and strengthen social networks
Economic Openness reaches highest level globally, spreading global trade, innovation and prosperity yet many Western countries’ instinct to protect and turn inwards, combined with a wider stagnation in the quality of Governance globally is acting as a brake on Economic Openness and poses a risk to solving social challenges.
Social Metrics Commission welcomes Government’s decision to start the process of adopting new official poverty measure. The measure was developed by the Commission and launched in September 2018, after three years of development.
Investigative journalist was murdered in 2018 aged 27, following his reporting of corruption amongst leading businessmen in Slovakia, and their links with politicians and organised crime.
We are delighted to announce that the Social Metrics Commission has met the high standards for statistical rigour set out in the UK Statistic’s Authority Code of Practice.
For too long, much of the political and policy debate on poverty has focussed on whether and how we should measure poverty, rather than the action needed to drive better outcomes for the most disadvantaged in our society.
Global prosperity rises to highest ever level, but falling safety and security poses major challenges for individuals, communities and nations around the world.