Chronic Poverty Research Centre

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...

At the February 2004 UN session of the Commission for Social Development, CPRC director David Hulme and CPRC partners Aasha Kapur Mehta from IIPA Delhi and Mark Gorman from HelpAge International highlighted the issue of how people in chronic poverty are often denied the basic services they...

Large numbers of Older People live in Chronic Poverty - and during April 2002 Spain hosted the World Assembly on Ageing (WAA) - the first such meeting for 20 years. CPRC partner HelpAge International played a prominent role at WAA, launching its major State of the World's Older People 2002 Report....

CPRC aims to produce policy relevant research that governments and aid agencies will find useful. NGOs play a major role in helping to raise issues and highlight policy - so CPRC has become an associate member of the UK NGO umbrella group BOND - British Overseas NGOs for Development. CPRC hopes to...