Welcome

The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs, which completed its ten-year programme in 2011. Our research has deepened understanding of the causes of chronic poverty, and provided analysis and policy guidance on the reduction of chronic poverty. 

The CPRC was funded by the UK Department for International Development.

Tackling chronic poverty: The policy implications of research on chronic poverty and poverty dynamics, produced at the end of the CPRC’s ten-year research and policy engagement process, summarises the key messages on how to include the poorest in development on good terms. 

The CPRC reveals that tackling chronic poverty involves a somewhat different set of policies and programmes additional to the orthodox, accepted set. 

But it can be done: through social protection, human development for the hard to reach, pro-poorest economic growth, and progressive social change towards the ‘good society’.

       

The CPRC has developed a network of researchers and associates in several developing and developed countries. The network is to be available to governments, agencies and organisations to advise and work together with them to address chronic poverty.

More information on the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network is available here, or please contact Andrew Shepherd.