Conferences
Ten Years of ‘War against Poverty’: What have we learned since 2000 and what should we do 2010-2020?
Manchester University
8th-10th September 2010
Organiser: Prof David Hulme.
In 2010, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre’s (CPRC) ten years of poverty research will be celebrated with this mega-conference. The conference aims at bringing together leading researchers on poverty in an attempt to understand and synthesize the contemporary ‘state of the art’ in poverty reduction. The conference explores the theoretical advances, methodological debates and practices for poverty reduction from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
The objectives of the conference are threefold: (1) to present and review the state of knowledge about poverty and poverty reduction after the first decade of concerted global efforts to eradicate extreme poverty; (2) to help set the research agenda on poverty and poverty reduction 2010 to 2020; (3) to showcase CPRC’s major research findings and assess the state of knowledge about chronic poverty and its eradication.
Papers will engage diverse topics including poverty dynamics and poverty traps, vulnerability and social protection, progress towards achieving the MDGs, poverty reduction in fragile states, human development, institutions and pro-poorest growth, inter-generational poverty, urban poverty and the politics of poverty reduction. These topics will be explored through plenaries as well as parallel sessions.
The conference is funded by the CPRC, the Brooks World Poverty Institute and DFID.