CROP - Mobilizing Critical Research for Preventing and Eradicating Poverty

CROP (The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty) is a programme of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), hosted by the University of Bergen. We build independent, alternative and critical knowledge and education which can inform policy. See our Core Objectives and Strategic Plan 2010-2011 for details.

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Crop Events

Call for papers: The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

December 10-12, 2012 / Cairo, Egypt

This cross-continental and interdisciplinary workshop will approach social change toward poverty eradication and prevention in an interdisciplinary and critical way taking current politics as the point of reference.

Poverty Studies Training Course for Young Researchers from Central America and The Caribbean

May 28 - June 1, 2012 / San Jose, Costa Rica

Applications are invited from young social scienctists from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haití, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

Poverty, religion and social justice: the Latin American contributions

April 17, 2012 / CROP, UiB Global, Bergen

The CROP & University of Bergen Poverty Lecture, by Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.

Poverty Research Resources

Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011

worldpoverty@manchester April 2012: Violence, crime and poverty in Patna, Bihar

MSc: Labour, Social Movements and Development

OPHI-HDCA Summer School on Capability and Multidimensional Poverty

Call for applications: Director of Children's Institute, University of Cape Town

CMI Lecture 2012: What are the irrational choices we make that perpetuate poverty, corruption, discrimination?

Global child poverty and well-being: Measurement, concepts, policy and action

VIII International Conference of The Latin American And Caribbean Research Network and Annual Regional Childwatch Meeting

Eradicating Extreme Poverty: Democracy, Globalization, and Human Rights

World Social Science Forum 2013: Social transformation and the digital age

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News from CROPNet

Poverty, Human Rights and the Global Order: Framing the Post-2015 Agenda

This new essay by Chair of CROP Prof. Thomas Pogge comments on the latest (March 2012) World Bank update on world poverty.

Global Social Policy Digest 12.2 is released

It has been compiled by member of CROP Scientific Committee Bob Deacon, along with Alexandra Kaasch and Antoni Verger. Branka Marijan provided invaluable research assistance.

CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2012

CROP, in cooperation with Zed Books, requests entries for the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2012. The winner will receive NOK 50.000. Deadline is August 1.

CROP Annual Report 2011

2011 has been an especially significant year as CROP has been adjusting to its new institutional setting within the University of Bergen which is intended to guarantee CROP’s sustainability as well as the accomplishment of its historical objectives.