- Poverty and the Environment, including economic change, poverty reduction, natural resource management and providing strategy papers for development assistance.
- Trade and the Environment, including rural poverty issues and helping stakeholders in 6 countries (Cambodia, Laos, Zambia, Malawi, Brazil, Kenya, and Vietnam) to address environmental and social implications of agricultural change.
- Payments for Ecosystem Services
- Investment and Development, including work on Extractive Industries and Infrastructure.
- Root Causes, including MPO's past work on an Analytical Approach and a guide for Analysis to Action
WWF Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme works in the following areas: