The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05, Launch Day
12th May, 2004
Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Description
The launch event for a major publication from the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, hosted by Tony Baldry MP, chair of the International Development Select Committee. The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 is about people living in chronic poverty - people who remain poor for much or all of their lives, many of whom will pass on their poverty to their children and all too often die easily preventable deaths. The report examines what chronic poverty is and why it matters, who the chronically are, where they live, what causes poverty to be persistent and what should be done about it. A section of regional perspectives looks at the experience of chronic poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, transitional countries and China. A statistical appendix brings together data on global trends on chronic poverty.
The launch coincides with the DFID donor seminar Making Development Work for the Poorest. For further information, or for a free copy of the DFID film on DVD, please contact Development Initiatives
Speakers and schedule
Main authors of the report:
- Ursula Grant, CPRC
- David Hulme, Director, CPRC
- Karen Moore, CPRC
- Andrew Shepherd, Deputy Director, CPRC
Event website
Meeting reports
Papers
Background papers include:
- Aid for the poorest
- Poverty in post-socialist transition countries
- Relating severe poverty and chronic poverty
There is a full bibliography of background papers in the 2004-05 report
Resources and links
The Commission for Africa's Report Our Common Interest cites The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05, 11th March 2005
CPRC analysis in The Chronic Poverty Report and other resources was extensively drawn upon in the Commission's attempts to define poverty, identify those most vulnerable, and to highlight the particular depth of poverty across Africa. Read the full report here.
Norwegian State Secretary for International Development uses The Chronic Poverty Report to inaugurate Conference on Inclusive Education, 15th June, 2005.
In his opening address to the 8th International Congress on Including Children with Disabilities in the Community, Norwegian State Secretary for International Development Olav Kjørven quoted extensively from The Chronic Poverty Report to point out the relationship between impairment, disability, exclusion and poverty. Read his speech here.
Jeffrey Sachs cites The Chronic Poverty Report, 22nd August, 2005.
In a new article in Scientific American, 'Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?', Director of the Earth Institute Jeffrey Sachs states that special measures are needed to help the poorest of the poor. He includes the cartogram developed by CPRC for its Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 to show the countries with the largest numbers of chronically poor people and those with the highest proportions of chronically poor people. Full article available here.
UN World Youth Report 2005 launched, with CPRC contribution, 4th October, 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. CPRC researcher Karen Moore contributed Chapter Three: Chronic, life-course and intergenerational poverty, drawn heavily from The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05. Read the UN Report here.