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Activities

We run a number of different activities and projects, all seeking to impact on global poverty. These center around a few specific themes.

Global Health

  • Health Impact Fund (HIF) – incentivizing the development of new medicines for the global poor
  • Global Health Impact (GHI) Project – evaluating and comparing medicines’ global health impact

Linking Academics and Researchers

  • Global Colleagues – forming global partnerships between poverty researchers
  • Impact Interviews – sharing insights from global poverty experts

Institutional Reform

  • Institutional Reform Goals (IRG) – reforming global institutions that maintain the status quo
  • Global Poverty Consensus Report (GPCR) – a joint project of ASAP and CROP aiming to highlight existing academic consensus on the causes and remedies for global poverty.

Climate Change

  • Global Climate Change Week (GCCW) – encouraging academics in all disciplines and countries to engage with their students and communities on climate change
  • Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and Climate Change – a legal guide detailing the links between climate change and human rights
  • Oslo Principles on Climate Change – detailing the existing legal obligations of states to curb climate change

Education

  • Know Your Rights India (KYRI) – raising awareness of rights, entitlements and benefits in India

Recent News

  • Bridging Our Divides: International Perspectives on Overcoming Social Disintegration – 19 Feb @ King’s College London
  • 2017 ASAP Chapter Network Event
  • 2017 Amartya Sen Prize Awarded to Mattia Anesa

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Welcome to ASAP

Established in 2010, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international community of academics confronting the rules and practices that perpetuate global poverty. Our evidence-based approach provides:

• alternatives to conventional analysis by media and governmental organizations,
• proposals for reforming national and supranational rules and policies,
• public education encouraging citizens to understand and engage with critical issues.

Academics Stand Against Poverty is registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States (EIN #32-0324998)

Our Board

Our board includes leading academics from a variety of fields, all with a passionate interest in poverty alleviation.
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Our Mission

We seek the elimination of global poverty, as guided by rigorous evidence-based and normative scholarship.
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Contact Us

We gladly accept all media inquiries, general inquiries, inquiries for national ASAP Chapters and other suggestions.
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