Joint winners: CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014
ANNOUNCEMENT: The CROP Secretariat is pleased to announce that the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014, organised in co-operation with Zed Books has named two joint winners.
The prize is awarded annually to outstanding monographs contributing to research on global poverty eradication or prevention.
The 2014 CROP prize will be shared between two excellent submissions:
In his winning submission, An Analysis of Changes in Child Poverty in the Developing World, Shailen Nandy, research fellow at the School for Policy Studies of the University of Bristol looks at how child poverty, measured as deprivation of basic needs/capabilities in the spirit of Amartya Sen, has changed over time. Nandy combines several regional analyses, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern and South East Asia, and Latin America. The CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize 2014 judges praised Nandy's submission as “very clear and thorough, and as having produced very interesting and relevant results which may extend to policy making, with the discussion of regional differences being especially relevant.” The judges also commended “the comprehensive and very readable literature overview, presentation of results and exposition of the methods used.”
Shailen Nandy Barbara Schaller
In the second winning entry ,Towards a Heterodox Economic Theory of Poverty Production, Barbara Schaller of the University of Birmingham assesses different theoretical approaches to poverty production processes in the capitalist economy. The panel judged her manuscript to be “a most interesting read, offering a very extensive overview over theoretical economic approaches on poverty. Bringing up to date the work of Thorstein Veblen, Joan Robinson and Michal Kalecki, and drawing on their insights into conspicuous consumption, mark-up pricing, industrial sabotage and hegemonic policy-making, Schaller develops her own original integrated heterodox account of poverty production in the present era.”
Both manuscripts will be published in due course as monographs in the book series 'International Studies in Poverty Research', which is a joint venture between CROP and Zed Books. In addition, the authors will share the monetary award sum of 50.000 NOK (8.500 USD).
More information on the CROP International Studies in Poverty Prize can be found here. The submission deadline for the 2015 prize is August 2015. The 2015 prize will be open to both book proposals and finished manuscripts.
