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CPRC Associate Director comments on poverty and demographic trends in an article for 'The Independent'

12/08/2008

CPRC Associate Director, Professor David Hulme, is cited in an article in The Independent entitled 'Population paradox: Europe's time bomb' looking at uneven demographic trends across the globe and their impact on climate change and the planet's...

Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 launched

08/07/2008

The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09: Escaping Poverty Traps was launched at the Foreign Press Association, London, by a panel of speakers:

Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce MP, Chair, UK International Development Select Committee
Dr Salil Shetty, Director, UN Millennium Campaign

Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest - new book launched

03/06/2008

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...

Past events in 2007

29/09/2007

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...

Past events in 2006

01/01/2007

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...

Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester

01/02/2006

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...

Past events in 2005

01/01/2006

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...

UN World Youth Report 2005 launched, with CPRC contribution

04/10/2005

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...

Jeffrey Sachs cites The Chronic Poverty Report

22/08/2005

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...

Norwegian State Secretary for International Development uses The Chronic Poverty Report to inaugurate Conference on Inclusive Education

15/06/2005

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...

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