Member of CROP Scientific Committee Julio Boltvinik is writing a weekly column "Economía Moral" in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
The concept of human security offers a new approach to the challenges of climate change, and the responses that could lead to a more equitable and sustainable future.
In this new CROP Poverty Brief, Prof. Thomas Pogge writes that while we are congratulating ourselves on how successful we all are in the fight against poverty, the FAO reported in 2009 that the number of chronically undernourished people has broken above 1 billion for the first time in human history.
Deadline for applications: 27 Sept, 2010
The CLACSO-CROP Programme on Poverty Studies in Latin American and the Caribbean invites applications with the theme "Poverty and Universal Social Protection: Latinamerican experiences and comparative perspectives".
Rather than congratulate ourselves on an increasing “global middle class”, we need to see whether, when and how middle classes may or may not align themselves with poor people and anti-poverty social agendas and policies.
The conference was held in London, November 20th 2009. The aim of the conference was to be forward looking rather than only reminiscing about the past. There were twenty speeches and over three hundred people participated.
"We have to help people understand that it is not difficult to eradicate extreme poverty", says Thomas Pogge at the CROP organized public roundtable 'Poor thinking: challenging dominant poverty research narratives.'
Professor Bob Deacon argues that the dominant discourse of poverty alleviation needs to give way to the global politics of welfare state rebuilding.
4-6 November 2010 / Mexico City
Organized by the Global Alternative Forum of Peoples in Movement, this activity is part of the alternative visions to the 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) that will be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, November 8-11.
Ultra-poor people are often invisible groups of poor, having no one to speak up for them or assist them in assuring their rights. Extreme poverty also has a clear gendered face, as the ultra-poor are more often found among unmarried women, divorced, widowed and abandoned women than in any other social group.
Thomas Pogge's new book is a powerful moral analysis that shows what Western states would do if they really cared about the values they profess.
The GSP Digest is produced by the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP) in collaboration with the International Council for Social Welfare (ICSW).
ASAP is a new organization created by Thomas Pogge, Keith Horton, and Meena Krishnamurthy to help academics have a greater impact on world poverty.
Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) Policy Brief no. 45 (Jan 2010), by Dr. Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Senior Fellow, Asian Institute of Transport Development, New Delhi.
April 26-28, 2010 / New School University, New York
Equity For Children convenes the 5th International UNICEF-GPIA conference, ‘Adolescent Girls-Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies’.
UNICEF puts social and gender-sensitive budgeting in context.
8-10 September, 2010 / Manchester, UK
CROP is co-sponsoring the Chronic Poverty Centre Conference hosted by Brooks World Poverty Institute. The final programme is now available.
29 January 2010
A co-ordinated UNICEF Strategy on Policy Advocacy and Partnerships for Children in Response to the Global Financial Crisis and Economic Slowdown.
30 Nov 2009
Celebrating the life of Peter Townsend, The Policy Press have published a Memorial booklet edited by Alan and Carol Walker, presenting his life long work and writings on poverty and inequality
