Sites for Sore Eyes

A good place to start looking for information on chronic poverty is the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC). Here you will find links to working papers, partner organisations and an online research toolbox, as well as the CPRC Bibliographic Database (CPRC-BD) and papers from the CPRC Conference (forthcoming, April 2003).

Other sites with a good range of chronic poverty-related information and analysis include WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research), the University of Sussex’s Poverty Research Unit and the Centre for the Study of African Economies.

The UNDP’s (United Nations Development Programme) poverty reduction site has links to its Millennium Development Goals monitoring programme. IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) hosts the South African KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Survey (KIDS).

A number of World Bank sites provide useful data on and analysis of chronic poverty-related topics, particularly poverty dynamics, including PovertyNet, Poverty Research and Global Poverty Monitoring.

Two poverty mapping sites are the World Bank and Poverty Mapping, a joint initiative of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Consultative Group in International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

For research on childhood and the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty, visit the Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre (CHIP) and their partners, the Young Lives Project.

The Inter-American Development Bank Sustainable Development Department site has information on childhood and IGT poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. See also the Research Department’s publications site.

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), particularly the Poverty and Public Policy Group, is a useful site for research into policy implications of chronic poverty. the Poverty and Social Policy pages of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex is useful and also provides links to the broader IDS research network.

For a British perspective on chronic and intergenerational poverty, visit the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), based at the London School of Economics.

Karen Moore
Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Institute for Development Policy and Management
University of Manchester
Crawford House
Precinct Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9GH
UK

T +44 (0)161 275 0809 
F +44 (0)161 273 8829
karen.moore@man.ac.uk

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