Brief Series

Brief Series

The CROP Poverty Briefs are a series of short research notes highlighting recent research and trends in global poverty. The ideas contained in CROP Briefs are those of the named authors and do not necessarily reflect a consensus view of the Programme. They are distributed as worthy of consideration by those concerned to “mobilize critical research for preventing and eradicating poverty”.

Poverty Brief 14: Current trends in Poverty Reduction in Latin America

The role of labour market and social protection / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 13: Poverty and the MDGs

A critical assessment and a look forward / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 12: Lipina & Posner

Developing Poor Connected Brains / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 11: Deacon

The Social Protection Floor / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 10: Wisor

World Development Report 2012 - A Review / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 9: Köhler

The MDGs and Social Policy Innovations from South Asia / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 8: Dean

Poverty and the Road to Global Social Citizenship / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 7: Lipina & Farah

Child Poverty under the lens of Cognitive Neuroscience / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 6: Korayem

Food Subsidy and Social Assistance Programmes in Egypt; Assessment and Policy Options / View PDF 

Poverty brief 5: Martínez Franzoni & Sánchez-Ancochea

The productive bottlenecks of progressive social policies: lessons from Costa Rica and beyond / View PDF 

Poverty brief 4: Petmesidou

Is the EU-IMF “rescue plan” dealing a blow to the Greek welfare state? / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 3: Pogge

Millions Killed by Clever Dilution of Our Promise / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 2 Deacon

From the global politics of poverty alleviation to the global politics of welfare state rebuilding / View PDF 

Poverty Brief 1

Status on global poverty - Selected statistics with sources / View PDF 
UiB ISSC

News from CROP Net

May 3 2013, 14.15-16.00 / IMER, Univ of Bergen

Potential contributions of migrant rights movements of Latin American origin to the emergence of counter-hegemonic paradigms of human rights- comparative aspects in the Euro-African and global context.

“Food Futures” is an invitation to think creatively on the potential for change and transformation of our food systems and how research can help define and achieve these visions.

Public round table session held at the "Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South" workshop.

CROP Events

May 13-15, 2013 / University of Bergen, Norway

Organized by the Department of Health Promotion and Development (HEMIL), UiB Global, and CROP.

May 6, 2013, 12-14, / University of Bergen

Open lecture with CROP Fellow Professor Maria Petmesidou: What is the status and impact of the financial crisis on the welfare states in Greece and other countries in South Europe?

March 26-27, 2013 / Quito, Ecuador

CROP, jointly with the ISSC, IHDP and Andean University Simon Bolivar, is organizing two public panels, taking place within the framework of the WSS Seminar "Sustainable Urbanization: Innovative approaches to understanding urbanization in the 21st century".