Website notice
At the close of the CPRC, this website is now archived. Live feeds, updates and mailing list subscriptions are no longer available on this website.
The wide-range of resources drawn from our ten years of research on chronic poverty will remain available on this site.
Launch of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network
For more information, view the leaflet here, or contact Andrew Shepherd.
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.
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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’.
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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.
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CPRC Publications
The CPRC publications database contains over 400 publications across chronic poverty research themes, policy areas, and countries.
Chronic poverty reports
Chronic Poverty Reports are the flagshiip CPRC publications that highlight how to better address chronic poverty through national and international policies.

