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The World Happiness Report 2024 reveals that those in the UK feel they have a greater sense of freedom than Germans and believe there is less corruption in the country. When looking at age demographics, the largest gap b... Read more...
20 March 2024
Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking. ... Read more...
19 March 2022
Letter from Richard Layard, Director, Wellbeing Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science: “We now have the knowledge to implement that approach. Much of it is found in the annual... Read more...
19 May 2018
The Office for National Statistics report on well-being in 2017 follows research last week from the London School of Economics that linked being happy to having a job – suggesting Britain’s record ... Read more...
18 May 2018
Economists Jeffrey Sachs, John Helliwell and Richard Layard pointed out several factors that affect the well-being of citizens, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, corruption and social support. However... Read more...
16 May 2018
Finland, a perennial chart-topper on global rankings of well-being and prosperity, has just been named the world’s happiest country in the World Happiness Report. Finns are not happy about the news. &hel... Read more...
14 May 2018
…the key to happiness apparently really is holding down a stable job according to experts. All the economic indicators say high employment rate is most likely to correlate with greater happiness. ... Read more...
13 May 2018
Respondents weren’t asked why they rated themselves as they did. But the three economists who edited the report—Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University in the US, John F. Helliwell of the Canadian Ins... Read more...
12 May 2018
The 2017 United Nations World Happiness Report shows U.S. happiness at its lowest point since 2006 according to Forbes magazine, ranking 14th in the world. Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs authored ... Read more...
04 May 2018
To live happily, it is better to love the long snowy winters. This is confirmed by the latest World Happiness Report, written at the request of the United Nations by economists John Helliwell, Richard Layard a... Read more...
30 April 2018
The World Happiness Report has been published every year since 2012, giving countries important data about the well-being of their people and how it compares to other nations’. One of the prima... Read more...
20 April 2018
According to the authors of the report, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, there is a characteristic of Latin Americans that makes them different. "Unusually happy." Th... Read more...
15 April 2018
This study is an initiative of the Network of Solutions for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The research was conducted by John Helliwell, researcher and professor at the Vancouver School of Econ... Read more...
26 March 2018
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has published a World Happiness Report annually since 2012. This year’s report has been widely reported, because Taiwan is ranked as the 26th-happiest nat... Read more...
In this year’s annual ranking of the happiest countries in the world, Israel placed an enviable 11th. According to the ranking’s sponsor, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Networ... Read more...
24 March 2018
The United Nations "sustainable development solutions" have been published every year since 2012. Each year, the "World Happiness Report" rankings are announced. The 2018 ranking announced ... Read more...
21 March 2018
The report, produced by the United Nations SDSN network and the Ernesto Illy Foundation, is edited by prof. John F. Helliwell (University of British Columbia and Canadian Advanced Research Institute), by prof.... Read more...
20 March 2018
Meanwhile, ever-more think tank-like units are rolling out of universities—such as the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance and the UK in a Changing Europe, which is co-ordinated through King&rsqu... Read more...
19 March 2018
Miami – World Happiness Summit 2018 welcomed peope from over 35 countries and 43 US states to the campus of the University of Miami yesterday….The three-day event opened with lakeside yoga at dawn... Read more...
17 March 2018
The UN’s 2018 Happiness Report shows that Israel is the eleventh-happiest country in the world, surpassing the United States and the UK. Related publications World Happiness Report 2018, John F. He... Read more...
16 March 2018
The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. This year, Singapore is ranked 34th, a drop from 2017's ranking of 26... Read more...
African nations overall don’t rank well in the new World Happiness Report, but there are a few surprises – and, of course, it likely depends on how happiness is defined. Also in: Th... Read more...
15 March 2018
Happy are the people of the Nordic nations — happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identical to the happiness of its immigrants. Those are the ... Read more...
14 March 2018
The philosophy of BISP recognises that a core purpose of formal education is to enable our students to lead “quality lives”. In that context, it is worth reflecting on research quoted in the World ... Read more...
11 March 2018
Article by Jeffrey Sachs The Global Happiness Council, which I am honoured to direct on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, has just issued the first Global Happiness Policy Report (GHPR) as a companion vol... Read more...
05 March 2018
Lord Richard Layard, program director of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and co-editor of the World Happiness Report, Mo Gawdat and Gopi Kallayil, Google executives, Allis... Read more...
23 February 2018
Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was recently invited to become a member of an expert panel on wellbeing. A research program of the London School of Economics and Political Science Centre for Economic Perform... Read more...
20 February 2018
The LSE economist: the cost of leaving the Union will fluctuate between £200 billion a year in the event of a complete breakdown and 20 billion for the softest solution to the Norwegian. There is no doub... Read more...
02 November 2017
Tweet by Alastair Campbell: Alastair CampbellVerified account @campbellclaret Oct 10 Follow Follow @campbellclaret Launching @beisgovuk as @TimetoChange employer with Perm Sec Alex Chisholm ... Read more...
12 October 2017
In March 2017 the "World Happiness Report" was published, which includes a chapter on happiness at work. In it, Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics, invites us to think abo... Read more...
03 October 2017
There is a lot of literature that describes the link between happiness and work. For example, Richard Layard, co-founder of the Annual World Happiness Report, said in 2011 that having paid work in place three ... Read more...
30 September 2017
Dennis Novy, professor of economics at the University of Warwick, said the tariff slapped on Bombardier was ‘designed to completely kill’ the C-Series programme. ‘Trump is telling the rest of... Read more...
29 September 2017
Opinion is divided on whether the breakup of large, diverse countries can increase national wellbeing, write Tony Beatton, Paul Frijters and Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee Among the world’s rich count... Read more...
28 September 2017
Article by Nikhil Datta and Swati Dhingra: About half of Britain’s trade and investment is with the EU, and currently, as members, we implement almost the same standards for products and services. One of... Read more...
13 September 2017
Paul Cheshire, Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE, says house prices could crash by 40 percent. His colleague Christian Hilber explains: ‘If Brexit leads to a recession and/or sluggish growth for... Read more...
26 July 2017
House prices are teetering on the brink of a crash that could be as bad as the bust of the early 1990s, a leading expert has warned. There are already warning signs that prices are heading towards a near 40 pe... Read more...
01 July 2017
Miami will be the site of the first global gathering of governmental leaders, economists, academics and researchers for the World Happiness Summit next month, the summit announced. The H20 is one of four tr... Read more...
16 February 2017
It has long been known that America’s Senate is less protectionist (i.e., more likely to favor trade deals) than the House. The usual explanation was that senators, representing larger territories, took ... Read more...
23 January 2017
In a new paper called “Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?,” economists George Graetz and Guy Michaels looked at 17 different developed countries, from 1970 through 2011. The t... Read more...
La inestabilidad de los contratos y el desempleo de los padres tienen efectos negativos en el rendimiento educativo de sus hijos. Es una de las principales conclusiones de un estudio elaborado por la investiga... Read more...
Next week, government and business leaders from around the world will meet in Davos, Switzerland for the 2018 World Economic Forum to discuss this years's theme: "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractur... Read more...
19 January 2017
Article by Swati Dhingra No access to EU’s single market and replacement deals potentially decades away heightens uncertainty for UK businesses. Theresa May’s speech on Tuesday was the govern... Read more...
18 January 2017
In the study’Job Loss at Home: Children’s School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain’, researcher Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London Sch... Read more...
03 December 2016
The book flies over aspects featured of the cases of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, countries that are located well above in rankings that measure development, welfare or happiness. The report on 2016 wo... Read more...
17 November 2016
EXCLUSIVE: An analysis by The Independent of official data suggests British exporters would face a cost of at least £4.5bn - and in all likelihood they would take a hit many times larger A separate analysis by th... Read more...
23 September 2016
Throughout the referendum campaign, experts raised serious, well-founded concerns about the potential for Brexit to cause serious economic harm. These went unanswered, because the Leave camp had no answers to offer. Inst... Read more...
10 August 2016
Data to calculate Gross National Happiness (GNH) includes asking respondents to measure their perceived quality of life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 representing the worst and 10 the best possible outcome. The latest r... Read more...
06 August 2016
For example, I have obtained an internal Scottish Enterprise document circulated last week among senior managers declaring the consequences of Brexit for the Scottish manufacturing sector ''to be overwhelmingly negative'... Read more...
09 July 2016
The Danes are the happiest people on Earth, followed by the Swiss, while Britons are comparatively miserable among the rich nations, but happier than the French and Italians. The only European countries happier than the ... Read more...
16 March 2016
Looking into FDI (foreign direct investment), the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance determined that if the UK could reach favorable free trade agreements with the EU after a Brexit, it will lose... Read more...
15 March 2016
The growing use of mobile phones in Africa leads to more political protests during recessions and periods of national crisis, according to research by Professor Marco Manacorda and Dr Andrea Tesei to be presented at the ... Read more...
01 March 2016
Liberal Ciudadanos defends the idea of a single contract to end a two-tier labour market, with ''a core of the temporary workers, much less protected and highly protected workers even as the United States'', said economi... Read more...
22 October 2015
We decided to examine Sanders' statement that the richest 0.1 percent has nearly as much as the bottom 90 percent. Its a standard line in Sanders' speeches. Warren Gunnels, policy director of Sanders' presidential campai... Read more...
21 September 2015
Pero no es el unico que comparte ese punto de vista. Tambien Luis Garicano, profesor de la London School of Economics, analizaba los retos a los que se enfrenta la economia global en los proximos anos en un encuentro rec... Read more...
11 September 2015
Dennis Novy interviewed. The topic was the resignation statement of the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, and what it means for the bailout programme and the Greek economy. The interview was broadcast by Al Jazeera ... Read more...
20 August 2015
In any recession, young people tend to suffer first. Moreover, unemployment among 16-24-year-olds was edging up even before the financial crisis. Youngsters have since faced a ''double whammy'' of scarcity of work and fa... Read more...
Article by Dennis Novy Alexis Tsipras will be able to survive, for one simple reason: there’s no better alternative. The Greeks don’t want to leave the Eurozone. The last months have shown that the government's prev... Read more...
17 August 2015
Dennis Novy interviewed lived on BBC World on Grexit, discussing the Greek bailout and long-term issues re huge imbalances in the Eurozone. This interview was broadcast by the BBC World Service on August 11, 2015 [ No ... Read more...
11 August 2015
Records: the happiest country in the world On April 24, 2015, the 2015 Edition of the happiness of the world (World Happiness Report) was published. The work includes a happiness measure, taking into account 158 countri... Read more...
... Top economists echoed the TUC's concerns yesterday ... Growth in recent years has been ''anaemic'', according to University College London's Professor Stephen Machin, and research director at the Centre for Economic ... Read more...
01 August 2015
Nobel Prize-winning economist Christopher Pissarides tells DW why he is deeply disappointed with the Greek government's mismanagement of the debt crisis. He also explains what Germany could have done better. This articl... Read more...
29 June 2015
In the freedom to make life choices, too, India performs poorly. There are many inherent inhibitions in this freedom, mainly for women. Richard Layard, director of the Wellbeing Programme at the London School of Economi... Read more...
05 June 2015
Spain needs to strip away the barriers to creating high-quality jobs instead of focusing on budget cutting if the country is to tackle its deficit problem, according to Luis Garicano, the economic policy chief at pro-mar... Read more...
04 June 2015
El economista Luis Garicano, autor del programa economico del partido de Albert Rivera, opina que la inversion en la alta velocidad de Galicia es un ''derroche keynesiano'' que debe paralizarse Economist Luis Garicano... Read more...
30 March 2015
Then there is the vital question of productivity. As Professor John van Reenen from the LSE observes, ''What the Chancellor didn't mention is that UK GDP per person is 16 per cent lower than we would have expected on pr... Read more...
27 March 2015
Since the global financial crisis, workers' real wages and family living standards in the UK have suffered to an extent unprecedented in modern history. The one group in society for whom living standards have risen since... Read more...
26 March 2015
Article by Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin Recessions can lead to an increase in youth unemployment, which could later negatively affect labour market outcomes. This column explores the effect of recessions ... Read more...
04 March 2015
London School of Economics Professor of Economics and Strategy Luis Garicano discusses the rise of anti-austerity in Europe, the upcoming election in Spain and the state of Spain's economy with Bloomberg's Mark Barton, A... Read more...
25 February 2015
Letter from Professor Richard Layard Sir, John Hutton and Alan Milburn are quite right (''Defend Labour's economic record - the facts are on our side'', Comment, January 28): the fiscal record of the last Labour govern... Read more...
29 January 2015
Nobel winner, Professor Chris Pissarides from London School of Economics, was unconcerned about a fall in China's growth rate. ''The slowdown was bound to happen and the Chinese are prepared for it'', he said. This ... Read more...
20 January 2015
Article by Luis Garicano with Lucrezia Reichlin The ECB seems to be edging towards QE, but faces a quandary on what to buy. This proposal suggests that the ECB buy 'Safe Market Bonds'. These would be synthetic bonds for... Read more...
15 November 2014
What if in our relatively deregulated flexible labour market-where the balance of workplace power favours bosses, many people are engaged on flexible performance-based contracts, and new technology is sweeping away jobs ... Read more...
13 November 2014
In a letter to the Editor, Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance says traders have been given free rein by banks - that there has been a a failure of banking regulation and governanc... Read more...
New research from Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Michael Norton, professors at the London School of Economics and Harvard respectively, looks at four decades of data (collected from more than 150 countries, including one datas... Read more...
09 October 2014
The Netherlands ranks fourth on a list of the world’s most contented nations. The list, drawn up by three economists, was published on the eve of a UN conference on happiness. Economists John Helliwell, Richard Layard ... Read more...
03 April 2012
A system of 'European Safe Bonds' run by a continent-wide debt agency could save the eurozone without the need for fiscal union argue two leading analysts from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Profes... Read more...
30 September 2011
“[As opposed to supporting Greek investment], supporting multinational investment helps China to develop global firms as well as diversity their capital outflow, predominantly away from government debt such as US Treasur... Read more...
Combatting Unemployment is a collection of key papers from seminal labour economists Richard Layard and Stephen J. Nickell. The authors received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2008 for their path-breaking wor... Read more...
19 May 2011