Q2 - Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis - is a research program supported by the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies (MIMAP) program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. It is housed at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto and will run from 2005-2009. The program aims to promote a better integration of ‘qual’ and ‘quant’ approaches to poverty assessment in the developing world through information sharing and networking, national capacity building and the piloting of Q2 methodologies (in Vietnam).

The Q2 program follows from Conferences of the same name organised in 2001 and 2004 by Ravi Kanbur, T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs at Cornell University and Paul Shaffer, research fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. The Q2 program organised a third Q2 Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 7-8, 2007.

The website aims to publicise Q2-type work and activities ongoing or planned. Please contact us to post upcoming news or events on the website or to submit a paper for consideration in the Q2 Working Paper series.