DEEP international conference on poverty evidence 2025

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A three-day event from our Data & Evidence to End Extreme Poverty Programme, in Arusha, Tanzania for leaders, policymakers, practitioners and researchers to exchange knowledge and evidence to inform efforts to address poverty.

Reenergising the race to 2030: Data and evidence to accelerate progress towards SDG1

📍Location: Arusha, Tanzania

🗓️Date: 11-13 June 2025

With five years remaining of Agenda 2030, the world is off-track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 1 – to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

The global landscape for economic growth and poverty reduction has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years. The ‘polycrisis’ facing LMICs – demographic shifts, climate change, epidemiological shocks, rapid technological advances, disruptions to global trade and investment, heightened debt burdens and the rising cost of credit, and broader socio-political changes – has already had profound consequences on economic growth, social transformation and poverty reduction.

Many LMIC governments are reassessing their development strategies and forecasts, with significant implications for poverty reduction efforts. This places a premium on robust and insightful poverty research.

The conference provides a timely and critical platform to convene national leaders and their strategy teams with leading international and national researchers, offering an opportunity to reinvigorate momentum around SDG 1 over the next five years.

Keynote speakers

His Excellency, Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is a Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania (2005 to 2015). 

François Bourguignon is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)

Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.

Ernest Aryeetey is an Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana.

Himanshu is Associate Professor in Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 

Conference themes

Explore how data and evidence can inform and strengthen strategies and policies for poverty reduction in LMICs, through:

1) Innovations in poverty measurement

2) The use of data and evidence to identify the drivers of poverty.

3) Data and evidence driven solutions for poverty reduction

About the conference

At the conference delegates will:

  • Hear keynote speeches from leading experts;
  • Join a range of panel discussions on pressing themes related to poverty strategy and evidence;
  • Take part in interactive workshops on cutting-edge measurement and analysis tools;
  • Engage in networking events to foster collaborations and share knowledge on the effective use of data and evidence in poverty-reduction policies and programmes.

This page will be updated with recordings of the sessions after the event.

 

Area of expertise

Poverty and social protection (PSP)