It has great presentation, good content and many links to other sites. When visiting look out for freebies (PovertyNet, PovertyLines, Nexus, CGAP, others) discussion groups, downloadable papers and details of the next World Development Report on poverty: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty for a preview summary.

For a broader selection of views on human development and livelihoods, visit UNDP at http://www.undp.org/poverty/ and for knowledge networks on sustainable development visit: http://gssd.mit.edu/Gssd/gssd.nsf?Open

For pages on social exclusion see: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/Case/ set up by LSE. UNDP's Human Development Reports site at http://www.undp.org/hdro/ usefully links to national HDRs, which offer detailed - and often unusual - country-specific insights.

Part of the IDS site at http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk zeroes in on participatory approaches to tackling poverty. For further grassroots perspectives look to NGO sites. Links to many beckon at RESULTS, OneWorld, World Food Programme and USAID at: http://action.org/resource.html
http://www.oneworld.net
http://www.wfp.org/links/links.html
http://www.info.usaid.gov/about/resources/

Numerous sites document and link organisations working in poverty-focused microfinance, such as Grameen Bank http://www.grameen-info.org/ and ACCION http://www.accion.org/ and the Virtual Library on Microcredit http://www.gdrc.org/icm/ is a must for watchers of micro money matters. Sites such as the HungerWeb, FAO on food security, IFPRI on nutrition and ODI on relief provide focussed information on the sharpest end of poverty. Find them at: http://www.brown.edu/Departments http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO
http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/
http://www.oneworld.org/odi/hpg/index.html

Children are the single largest group of poor people in the world. Various excellent UNICEF pages at http://www.unicef.org/ are important sources of information, research reports and links to major sites on poverty vis-a-vis children and their parents. Urban poverty is a Cinderella topic but the IIED site at http://www.iied.org presents excellent research and applied experience. Neglected food poverty issues in the UK are highlighted by Oxfam at http://www.oxfam.org.uk and for gateways with links into poverty in rich countries see http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/ and http://lissy.ceps.lu/index.htm