Centre for Population Poverty and Public Policy Studies
 The Centre for Population Poverty and Public Policy Studies (CEPS/INSTEAD) is a research centre located in Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg.Established in 1978 for researching persistent poverty in industrialized countries within the framework of the First European Community Program to Combat Poverty the Centre was given by Luxembourg law the status of a public establishment by the Prime Minister in 1989 with scientific administrative and financial autonomy.The centre has a research staff complement of 140 consisting mainly of economists sociologists social policy analysts geographers and psychologists.