Macroeconomics: Poverty & The Environement

Project: Economic Change, Poverty and the Environment

Implementation sites: China, El Salvador, Indonesia, South Africa, Zambia, plus network-wide and global policy outreach
Duration: January 2001 to June 2006

Project staff develop and refine analytical tools that promote understanding of the links between poverty and environmental problems, and then move rapidly to intervene in vulnerable communities.

These interventions can take many forms, including working to promote government-community co-management of natural resources, removing legal barriers that impede sustainable development, and training the rural poor to better manage resources.

A defining feature of the project is its orientation toward developing replicable approaches. Each intervention serves a double purpose, addressing the current needs of one vulnerable community while refining analytical tools and intervention strategies that can be adapted to a wide range of situations in communities around the world.