The Social Anthropology Department of the University of Bergen, holds a workshop on "Biotechnology and its Social and Ethical Implications: Present and Future" (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, Bergen, Norway):
http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/vitalmatters/Biotechnology2005

Thanx to Seb. for sending me this great link:
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Its an archive, where many texts about the eugenic movement in the USA (1910-1940) can be found:
Eugenics was, quite literally, an effort to breed better human beings – by encouraging the reproduction of people with "good" genes and discouraging those with "bad" genes. Eugenicists effectively lobbied for social legislation to keep racial and ethnic groups separate, to restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and to sterilize people considered "genetically unfit." Elements of the American eugenics movement were models for the Nazis, whose radical adaptation of eugenics culminated in the Holocaust.

The Overseas Development Centre (ODI) is one of Britains largest independent think tanks on international development and humanitarian issues. Among their research activities, you can find
group with a focus on "Poverty and Public Policies":
http://www.odi.org.uk/PPPG/index.html
A Paper on Poverty regarded from an anthropological viewpoint can be found here:
"Experiencing poverty in Africa: perspectives from anthropology"
http://www.odi.org.uk/PPPG/publications/papers_reports/mul/wob_bp1.html