Poverty Reduction and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The world faces a double challenge: to eradicate hunger and poverty and to stabilize the global climate before it is too late. Our focus is on undertaking critical, independent and high quality interdisciplinary and policy-related research on the challenges and dilemmas posed by poverty, climate disruption and sustainable development. We aim to better understand vulnerability to poverty, hunger and famine in low and middle-income countries and potential policy solutions.

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Professor Dan Banik University of Oslo Group leader
Dr. Johanna Adolfsson University of Oslo Assistant group leader

About the group

This research group's aim is:

To undertake empirical studies in different countries with an emphasis on ‘the politics of everyday life’ and ‘policies in practice’
To study policies, programs and events that can be considered “promising” or even successful in improving the well-being of the poor and contributing to overall societal progress;
To study the explicit role of institutions, politics and power in shaping and determining action by governments;
To critically assess what has been the impact of global ideas and values, including those emanating from the foreign aid discourse, on local policymaking in poor countries;
To study the impact of governance and institutional reforms and the process by which anti-poverty policy is formulated, articulated, legislated, delegated and implemented in middle-income and low-income countries;
To examine international development policy in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) era.