Chronic Poverty Research Centre

A seminar featuring presentations by Professor David Hulme, Rachel Slater, Dr Armando Barrientos and Dr Sam Hickey was held at ODI to launch a new CPRC book, Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest - Concepts, Policies and Politics.
You can read a summary of the seminar on the ODI...

Background & Opportunities: A day of discussion about Intergenerational Mobility. University of Essex Economics Department, Colchester, 27 March 2007. Find out more... 
African Development and the Next Generation. Open University, Milton Keynes, 16-17 May 2007. Find out...

Homelessness: A Global Perspective. Mumbai, India, 9-13 January 2006. Find out more... 
CSAE-GPRG Conference 2006: Reducing Poverty and Inequality: How can Africa be included? St Catherine's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 19-21 March 2006. Find out more...
WIDER Conference on...

On 1 February 2006, Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz formally launched the BWPI at the University of Manchester with a public lecture focusing on the outcomes of the December 2005 WTO trade talks in Hong Kong, and their effect on economic development and poverty reduction efforts across...

Winners and Losers from Rights-Based Approaches to Development. Conference hosted by the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, February 21-22, 2005. Find out more ...

Land inequality and persistent poverty. IDS Seminar Series, University of...

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Programme on Youth launched its publication World Youth Report 2005 - Young people today, and in 2015 on 4 October 2005. An official report to the UN General Assembly on the 10th anniversary of its adoption of the World Programme for Action on...

In a  new article in Scientific American, 'Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?', Director of the Earth Institute Jeffrey Sachs argues that although market economics and globalization are lifting the bulk of humanity out of extreme poverty, special measures are needed to help the poorest of the...

In his opening address to the 8th International Congress on Including Children with Disabilities in the Community on June 15, 2005, Norwegian State Secretary for International Development Olav Kjørven quoted extensively from The Chronic Poverty Report to point out the relationship between...

CPRC analysis in The Chronic Poverty Report and other resources was extensively drawn upon in the Commission's attempts to define poverty, identify those most vulnerable, and to highlight the particular depth of poverty across Africa.
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A major international donor seminar organised by DFID on Making Development Work for the Poorest was held in London on 12 May 2004. 
The meeting was addressed by UK Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn MP, Norwegian Minister for International Cooperation Hilde...