Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP)

CROP Secretariat, Nygårdsgaten 5, N - 5020 Bergen, NORWAY, Norway

Phone : + 47 55589744 / Fax : + 47 55589745

Web site : www.crop.org/

CROP - the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty - is an international research programme initiated in 1992 by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The CROP Secretariat is localised at the University of Bergen, Norway.

CROP is organised around an extensive international and multi-disciplinary research network, which is open to all poverty researchers and others interested in a scientific approach to poverty.

CROP is a response from the academic community to the problem of poverty. CROP concentrates on research.

Main objectives for CROP are:

1. consider how the social sciences can better contribute to the understanding of poverty in a global context;

2. compare the different theoretical approaches so as to understand better their links and relationships;

3. consider how scholars working within different paradigms can develop a joint arena for multi-paradigmatic poverty research.

4. establish an international scientific network which will give impetus to a long-term research program;

5. generate and secure high quality data of importance for different social science approaches to the comparative study of poverty;

6. create a body of scientific knowledge which can be used for poverty reduction