The CPRC is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs established that provides research and policy guidance on the reduction of chronic poverty As countries move to reduce absolute poverty, more of the poverty that will be left behind is chronic, increasing the urgency to tackle chronic poverty The CPRC publications database contains over 400 publications across chronic poverty,, and Nearly half a billion people are trapped in chronic poverty – poverty they experience over many years, often over their entire lives, and commonly pass poverty on to their children