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This is a test site for the new Chronic Poverty Research Centre website. Please visit www.chronicpoverty.org for the live site!

Welcome

The Chronic Poverty Research Centre is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs which exists:

• to focus attention on chronic poverty
• to stimulate national and international debate
• to deepen understanding of the causes of chronic poverty
• to provide research, analysis and policy guidance that will contribute to its reduction.

CPRC was established in 2000 with initial funding from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID).

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Social Protection for the Poorest in Africa - Learning from Experience 08 September 2008 

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Kampala, Uganda
8-10th September 2008

Bringing together practitioners, researchers and policy-makers involved in the development, design and implementation of social protection programmes, especially those which aim to address xtreme and chronic poverty, with the aim of learning from existing programmes and informing the extension of social protection in Africa. See more here.

Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09

Comments from readers of advance copies of the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09

"No person should live without hope: their loss is a loss for us all. We must go forward together, and this report shows us how." 
John Sulston, Nobel Laureate 

"This is cutting edge thinking, seeking to match rigorous analysis of the causes of chronic poverty with both the politics and the policies required to address it. An invaluable contribution to the global effort to eradicate poverty, and reshape aid practices to support the combination of active citizenship and effective states that lies at the heart of development."
Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam

Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP, commenting on the Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05: "I want to congratulate the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. This report is a landmark report. It is a challenge to any complacency, it is a call for change and it is a demand for urgent action.”

The second Chronic Poverty Report will be published on July 8th 2008. It will be launched at events in London on that day (see below) and at further events around the world later in the year.

This report will focus on the policies and action necessary to end chronic poverty. It will be an important resource for policymakers, academics, activists and others engaged in the struggle to eradicate poverty. It will be available to download from the Chronic Poverty Reports area of this website.

Click here to go direct to the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 page

Click here to contact the CPRC Knowledge Manager if you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive notification of launch events and related CPRC work.

Click here to read the landmark first Chronic Poverty Report, which sets out the evidence on chronic poverty around the world: what it is, who suffers it, where, and why.

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