Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP)

CROP is a scientific programme of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) based in the University of Bergen (UiB) Global, a unit specialized in international development that reports directly to the Rector of UiB. The objective of CROP is to produce critical knowledge for understanding, eradicating and preventing poverty.

Main Activities

• promote international, multi-disciplinary, integrative, critical and comparative research;
• produce knowledge with policy relevance apt to create opportunities for dialogue with policy makers;
• build capacity in the global academic community with particular attention to capacity building in the South;
• promote and enable pedagogical activities through graduate courses, summer institutes and innovative forms of graduate education (mainly virtual);
• publish and disseminate critical and innovative knowledge on poverty and poverty related issues.

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