2008
Launch Workshop
What Development Interventions Work?
The Long-Term Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Interventions in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh
8th April 2008
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CPRC, in partnership with the Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) Ltd., are undertaking quantitative and qualitative research focussing on the long-term impact of three interventions - microfinance, new agricultural technologies, and food/cash transfers for education - on the livelihoods and well-being of poor Bangladeshis. The project builds on IFPRI data collected during the 1990s on the impact of the
three interventions on 1,787 households in rural Bangladesh. By resurveying
these original households a decade later, the study analyses and compares the
long-term impacts of these anti-poverty interventions.
Read articles from Bangladesh's newspapers (links open in new window):
- The New Nation
- The Daily Star
International Conference
Social Protection for the Poorest in Africa - Learning from Experience
Kampala, Uganda
8-10th September 2008
Development Research & Training, the CPRC and the Brooks World Poverty Institute will co-host this international conference. The meeting will bring together practitioners, researchers and policy-makers involved in the development, design and implementation of social protection programmes, especially those which aim to address extreme and chronic poverty, with the aim of learning from existing programmes and informing the extension of social protection in Africa.
Further information is available as is a call for papers. Abstracts for consideration should be submitted by 12 April 2008.
2007
Meeting
MDG midpoint: Chronic poverty - Do people in chronic poverty gain anything from the MDGs?
ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD
Monday 23 July, 1.00-2.30PM
CPRC and the Overseas Development Institute co-hosted this meeting at which a panel of speakers bridging the worlds of research and policy discussed their perspectives on how the MDG agenda relates to chronic poverty in areas such as economic growth, health and social protection.
The meeting was chaired by Kate Bird (ODI), and the panel included Tony German (Development Initiatives), Armando Barrientos (IDS), Margaret Kakande (Poverty Monitoring and Analysis Unit, Government of Uganda) and Martin Prowse (ODI).
Read more and listen to the meeting ...
International Workshop
Understanding and addressing spatial poverty traps
Cape Town, South Africa
29 March 2007
CPRC, the Civil Society Partnership Programme of ODI, Trocaire and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation are sponsoring an international workshop drawing together researchers, civil society organisations, donor organisations and southern governments to consolidate lessons from recent analytical work on the drivers of poverty and chronic poverty in ‘spatial poverty traps’ and to review experience from government and civil society policy experiments in such areas.
Visit workshop website (opens in new window)
Read the June 2007 edition of Mwangaza: the Newsletter of Trócaire's East Africa Regional Office, which contains articles based on the papers presented at this workshop (pdf file opens in new window).
International Conference
Living on the Margins:
Vulnerability, social exclusion and the state in the informal economy
Cape Town, South Africa
26-28 March 2007
The Isandla Institute and the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, in partnership with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, invite submissions for papers and presentations for a conference exploring the issues facing those in informal employment and at the margins of the formal economy.
Visit conference website, with abstracts and papers... (opens in new window)
Read the final conference report ... (pdf)
2006
International conference
What works for the Poorest?
Knowledge, Policies and Practices
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 generating useful knowledge about practical actions, public policies, and innovative financing ideas that can help the poorest improve their lives.
Read the Research Summary on the conference... (pdf)
Further details, presentation abstracts and some papers are available from the BRAC Research and Evaluation Division website ... (opens in new window)
Read articles on the conference from Bangladesh's newspapers (links open in new window):
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Chairman Rehman Sobhan (2-R) speaks at a conference titled “What works for the poorest?” in Dhaka yesterday, as University of Manchester’s David Hulme (2-L), Naila Kabeer of Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and Syed Hashemi of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) look on. (The Daily Star, 06.12.06, page 8).
Public meeting
Youth and Development: Learning the Lessons of the World Development Report 2007
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 MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.
Read more about the meeting, and listen to the meeting on the ODI website ... (opens in new window)
Meeting flyer... (pdf file opens in new window)
Also see the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty Research Theme page.
Roundtable
1.3 Billion Youth: Is the Research and Policy Community Prepared?
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 Initiative); Alpha Barry Bacar (youth development activist); Sir Richard Jolly (CUNY Graduate Center); David Woollcombe (Peace Child International) and Caroline Harper (CPRC/ODI).
Download the roundtable summary from the ODI website ... (pdf file opens in new window)
Also see the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty Research Theme page.
Workshop
Concepts and Methods for Analysing Poverty Dynamics and Chronic Poverty
A conference hosted by CPRC at the Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester, 23-25 October 2006.
Download draft papers ...
Launch
The State of the Poorest 2005/2006 -
Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh
On October 8th, over 100 participants from government, donor agencies, NGOs, academia and the media attended the launch of The State of the Poorest 2005/2006 - Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh: Tales of Ascent, Descent, Marginality and Persistence.
On behalf of the Programme of Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (PRCPB), Dr Binayak Sen (World Bank), who co-edited the report with Prof David Hulme, presented the report. Download a pdf file of the presentation (file opens in new window).
Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman (Executive Chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre) presented the review of the report. Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud (Former Adviser, Caretaker Government), Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed (Managing Director, Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation) and Dr. Quazi Mesbahuddin Ahmed (Member, Planning Commission) spoke as special guests, and Prof Rehman Sobhan (Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue) also spoke on the occasion as the chief guest.
Read articles on the launch and report in Bangladeshi newspapers The Daily Star (Front page - 09/10/06; Editorial - 10/10/06; Front page - 10/10/06) and The Financial Express: Headline - 09/10/06. The story was also picked up by The Gulf Times, Reuters and the Indo Asian News Service.
Full report available on website soon ... contact Zulfiqar Ali for details.
Workshop
CPRC Workshop on Panel Surveys and Life History Methods
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 poverty (including both shorter term poverty dynamics and the longer-term intergenerational transmission of poverty).
Read the report summary ... (pdf file opens in new window)
Workshop
Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh
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 poverty; popular expectations of government amongst the poor; urban destitution; and financing poverty reduction programmes.
Read more about PRCPB...
2005
Workshop
Programme for Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh
PRCPB researchers gathered on November 8th, at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, to discuss and plan on-going research.
Read more about PRCPB...
 Launch
Chronic Poverty in Uganda: The Policy Challenges
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.
Read the report summary ...
Seminar
Chronic Poverty: Emerging Policy Options and Issues
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 regarding policies and programmes that can best respond to the needs and interests of India's 100 million plus chronically poor; help interrupt chronic poverty; and prevent people sliding into it through loss of assets and failure to cope with shocks.
Read more about the seminar and download papers ...
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Seminar series
Social protection – making child poverty history
CPRC, the Overseas Development Institute and Plan International co-hosted a four-part seminar series in June and July at ODI:
• June 8, 2005 – Can low income countries effectively deliver cash transfers which impact on child poverty?
• June 15, 2005 – How can the abolition of user fees and the provision of in-kind support impact on child poverty?
• June 22, 2005 – Rights and social protection for children: addressing inequality
• July 8, 2005 – What is the role of the community in the effective delivery of social protection for children?
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Seminar
Persistent poverty and the barriers to pro-poor growth
CPRC and the Overseas Development Institute (London) co-hosted a seminar on May 26, 2005 at ODI, chaired by Dr Andrew Shepherd (CPRC/ODI), at which two papers were presented:
• Sense in Sociability? Social Exclusion and Persistent Poverty in South Africa (Professor Michael Carter, University of Wisconsin)
• Can the chronically poor benefit from a pro-poor growth strategy? Lessons from Recent ODI/CPRC Research (Professor Andy McKay, CPRC/University of Bath, Ursula Grant, CPRC/ODI and Ed Anderson, ODI).
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International conference
Social protection for chronic poverty
CPRC and the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, co-hosted a two-day international conference at IDPM on February 23-24, 2005. About 100 participants discussed 26 papers focussing on three main questions:
• What are the roles of risks, rights, and needs in understanding chronic poverty and its remedies?
• What works, and does not work, in reducing chronic poverty in developed and developing countries?
• What are the political economy conditions required for sustainable anti-chronic poverty interventions?
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Workshop
Policy influencing and media engagement
CPRC and its partner the Overseas Development Institute (London) hosted a two-day international workshop at the ODI on January 17-18, 2005. The researchers and civil society organisations that participated in the workshop drew on their experiences of attempting to use research-based evidence to influence pro-poor policy change, and identified necessary steps in dealing with these challenges effectively. The resource pack based on the workshop, edited by Kate Bird and Ursula Grant (CPRC/ODI) is aimed primarily to support CPRC researchers to influence policy but is likely to be useful to other researchers and research users.
Go to the Dissemination section of CPRC's Methods Toolbox to find out more...
2004
Launch
The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05
The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 - a major publication from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre - was launched at a meeting in London on 12 May 2004, hosted by Tony Baldry MP, chair of the UK International Development Select Committee.
Read comments from UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown MP and International Development Secretary Hilary Benn MP...
2003
Workshop
IIPA-CPRC Seminar on Chronic Poverty and Development Policy
4-5 November 2003
Indian Institute of Public Adminstration, New Delhi
More about the seminar ... (pdf)
International conference
Staying poor: chronic poverty and development policy
Major international conference co-hosted by CPRC and the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, April 7-9, 2003.
Find out more ...
2002
Workshop
CPRC-India Research Design Workshop for Exploring Appropriate Solutions to Chronic Poverty
15-16 May 2002
Indian Institute of Public Adminstration, New Delhi
More about the workshop ... (pdf)
Launch
CPRC London Launch Workshop
On February 4th, 2002 CPRC held an inaugural workshop in London to present CPRC's developing research agenda and ask for feedback.
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