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Home CROP News Poverty Research News Training Course About CROP Contact us People Publications Workshops Cropnet Poverty Research Resources The CLACSO-CROP programme |
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A major aim of CROP is to produce sound and reliable research based knowledge which
can serve as a basis for poverty reduction. Preference is given to projects within "contextual poverty",
that is those which focus on poverty in relation to a society's cultural, economic and political
patterns. Within this framework the world of the non-poor and its role in creating, sustaining and reducing poverty is as important to understand as the world of the poor.
Initiatives for collaborative projects come from members in the CROP network. Currently CROP organises, co-ordinates or gives organisational support to the following research projects:
Mapping the frontiers of international poverty research (1994, ongoing)
An important part of CROP activities is to develop tools to facilitate comparative poverty research. Through the utilisation of scientific expertise within the CROP network several projects have been [...] The Role of the state in Poverty Reduction (ROSA) (1997, ongoing) The research programme on the role of the state in poverty reduction was started in 1997 to explore how differences in performance in poverty reduction can be understood as functions of the contextual [...] Elite Perceptions of Poverty and the Poor (1994, ongoing) The project on elite perceptions of poverty is a comparative study on how various elite sectors in several national societies see poverty and inequality. The basic assumption underlying the project is [...] Poverty and law/Poverty and human rights (1995, ongoing) Workshops on “Law and Poverty” have been organised every second year since 1995 by CROP in co-operation with the International Institute of the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oņati, Spain. [...] Best practices in poverty reduction (1995, ongoing) As a follow-up of the United Nations Social Summit in 1995 CROP was commissioned by UNESCO and the MOST programme to develop a framework for a project on best practice in poverty reduction. Poverty and Water (2000-new) This research project explores the relationships between poverty and the use of water in production and reproduction. International actors in poverty reduction: Poverty in an ethical persepective (2000-new) To view reduction of poverty as a question of international (formal) rights also implies an ethical commitment or moral obligation for the international community to help alleviate the s [...] Page 1 of 2 | next page |
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