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The Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network is a network of researchers working to reduce poverty. The network receives funding from IDRC. Specific objectives are to:

• Better understand the causes and consequences of poverty.

• Propose alternative strategies, policies and programs to reduce poverty.

• Improve the monitoring and measurement of poverty.

• Develop local research (and training) capacity in these areas.

• Develop new concepts and methodologies through fundamental research.

PEP-net is composed of three tightly linked constituent networks.

1. Community-Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS) – designs and pilots community-based monitoring and local development systems aimed at poverty in its multidimensional sense.
2. Poverty Monitoring, Measurement and Analysis (PMMA) – aims to develop and apply analytical tools to monitor, measure and understand poverty, and to analyze a wide range of poverty issues.
3. Modeling and Policy Impact Analysis (MPIA) – uses economy-wide models and analysis as a "laboratory" to identify and analyse the links between specific policies and shocks and their eventual impacts on poverty.

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