Comparing Poverties
CROP is an
extensive international and multidisciplinary research network
focusing on a scientific approach to poverty. It is a response
from the academic community to the problem of poverty. As a
network, it concentrates on research to produce sound and
reliable knowledge, which can serve as a basis for poverty
reduction. Emphasis is placed on projects within “contextual
poverty”, that is those which focus on poverty in relation to a
society’s cultural, economic and political patterns.
The main
objectives of CODESRIA – ISSC (CROP) research collaboration are
to:
consider how the
social sciences can better contribute to the understanding of
poverty in a global context
compare the
different theoretical approaches so as to understand better
their links and relationships
consider how
scholars working within different paradigms can develop a joint
arena fro multi-paradigmatic poverty research
establish an
international scientific network which will give impetus to a
long term research program
generate and
secure high quality data of importance for different social
science approaches to the comparative study of poverty
create a body of
scientific knowledge which can be used for poverty reduction
