Chronic Poverty Research Centre

House of Commons, London, 5 December 2006
An event co-hosted by CPRC, the Overseas Development Institute, Peace Child International and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development.
Speakers: Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development and Andrew Mitchell...

BRAC Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3-5 December 2006
A conference jointly organised by CPRC, BRAC, and the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, and sponsored by DFID, CIDA and the Aga Khan Foundation.
The conference sought to contribute to global poverty reduction by...

Overseas Development Institute, London, 21 November
The roundtable was co-hosted by CPRC, the Overseas Development Institute, and Peace Child International.
Speakers included: Mattias Lundberg (World Bank; co-author of 2007 WDR); Tom Burke (Peace Child International; Carnegie Young People’s...

A conference hosted by CPRC at the Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester, 23-25 October...

A conference hosted by CPRC at the Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester, 23-25 October 2006.
http://www.chronicpoverty.org/news_events/ConceptsWorkshop-Oct2006.htmOn October 8th, over 100 participants from government, donor agencies, NGOs, academia and the media attended the...

On 24-25 February 2006, CPRC partners and invited resource persons, including Agnes Quisumbing (IFPRI), Peter Davis (Bath), Elizabeth Francis (LSE), Stefan Dercon (Oxford) and Peter Shaffer (Toronto), shared experiences of combining quantitative and qualitative methods for the study of chronic...

PRCPB hosted a workshop on February 19-20 , at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, at which about a dozen papers were presented by PRCPB and associated researchers on the dynamics of and mechanisms behind extreme and chronic poverty in rural Bangladesh; education, employment and...

The Ugandan Chronic Poverty Report was launched on October 18th in Kampala. Ugandan and international CPRC researchers participated alongside a cross-section of researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners from across Uganda.
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The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (India)-Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) organised a two-day Seminar on "Chronic Poverty: Emerging Policy Options and Issues" on September 29-30, 2005 , at IIPA in New Delhi. This seminar was designed to contribute to discussions...

PRCPB researchers gathered on November 8th, at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, to discuss and plan on-going research.
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