1. International Poverty Centre
The Many Dimensions of Poverty
N. Kakwani
Director
International Poverty Centre

2. Four Main Objectives
Expand developing countries’ knowledge and capacity to design and implement effective policies against poverty.
Provide advice and technical assistance through UNDP’s country offices.
Facilitate knowledge sharing through South-South cooperation.
Promote global debates on poverty issues.

3. Areas of Research Poverty Measurement and monitoring.
Pro-poor Growth and Policies.
Vulnerable groups and safety net.
Employment and Poverty Nexus.
Millennium Development Goals.
Gender Research Programme on economic
autonomy of women and time use.

4. Examples of Technical Assistance
Botswana’s national poverty report, which will be the basis for Botswana government’s poverty reduction strategy.
Thailand has adopted the new poverty line developed by IPC.
Poverty assessment report for Jordan in collaboration with the World Bank.
New poverty line for Colombia (currently being undertaken)
MDG costing for Pakistan (to be carried out in October 2005).

5. Global Poverty Counts
Table1: Percentage and number of poor by regions: 2001

6. Pro-poor Growth
Table 2: Pro-poor growth: 80 countries and 237 spells between

7. Training Areas
Poverty measurement and monitoring. Strengthening national analytical capacities for more efficient poverty reduction policies.
Programme evaluation. Addressing the need to carry-on solid evaluations of poverty reduction and social programs.
Poverty and employment. Improving developing countries’ understanding of the links between poverty and employment to promote better pro-poor policies.

8. Dissemination Web Site www.undp.org/povertycentre
In Focus (6 issues as August 2005)
Working Papers (11 issues as August 2005)
One Pagers (16 issues as August 2005)

9. Conferences Social Inclusion. 1-2 December 2004.
Strengthening the employment nexus between growth and poverty reduction January 2005.
Gender Equality, Poverty Reduction and the MDGs. 19 April 2005.
International seminar: Advancing Equity – a dialogue on policies. IPC and DFID April 2005.
The many dimensions of poverty: August 2005.