Social Cohesion, Welfare, and Global Dimensions
The MDGs and the Political Economy of Development: A critical assessment
23 August 2012 | Bergen Resource Center for International Development, Norway
PUBLIC EVENT with participants from CROP's Scientific Committee
The MDGs and Poverty Reduction in the 21st Century: A Critical Assessment
22 August 2012 | Bergen Resource Center for International Development, Norway
PUBLIC EVENT with participants from CROP's Scientific Committee
Poverty and Politics in Middle Income Countries
22-24 November 2012 | Cape Town, South Africa
WORKSHOP organised by CROP and the Institute for Social Development at the University of the Western Cape, aims to enhance comparative and critical views of poverty politics; to consolidate the recently formed Working Group on Poverty Politics and Social Policy, and to prepare the publication of an anthology based on selected contributions.
The Role of Social Security in Crisis Response and Recovery, and Beyond
Interview with Michael Cichon / Director, ILO Social Security Department
The crisis has reinforced the perception that the extension of social security should be a high priority. While in many developing countries social security systems were previously considered unaffordable, they are now regarded as important investments to support sustainable economic growth.
The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest
Nancy Birdsall / Center for Global Development Working Paper 207
Inclusive growth is widely embraced as the central economic goal for developing countries, but the concept is not well defined in the development economics literature. Since the early 1990s, the focus has been primarily on pro-poor growth, with the “poor” being people living on less than one dollar a day, or in some regions two dollars a day.
The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) Middle Class
Martin Ravallion / World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS4816
Although barely 80 million people in the developing world entered the Western middle class over 1990-2002, economic growth and distributional shifts allowed an extra 1.2 billion people to join the developing world's middle class.
Peter Townsend Memorial Conference website
20 November 2009 | London, UK
ACADEMIC PANEL: CROP Scientific Director Asuncion Lera St. Clair chaired the session on "Poverty and Social Exclusion"
