1st Edition
Escaping Poverty's Grasp The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction
By David Reed
Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite decades of macroeconomic reforms, poverty reduction plans and rural growth strategies, poverty is persistent and environmental degradation is accelerating in the developing world. Though traditional economic indicators have improved in some countries, little has worked to open enduring economic and ecological opportunities to the rural poor. This unacceptable outcome grows, in large part,... Read more
Introduction * The Grinding Rituals of Poverty * The 3xM Approach * China * Indonesia * El Salvador * South Africa * Zambia * Lessons * Recommendations *
Biography
DAVID REED is director, Macroeconomics Program Office, WWF-International in Washington DC, US. He has a PhD from the University of Geneva and has worked in social and economic development for 30 years. He is author of Economic Change, Governance and Natural Resource Wealth (2001) and editor of Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development (1996).
WWF's groundbreaking book and its 3xM Approach reflects Sida's development philosophy in many ways: it empowers the poor, links poverty reduction and the environment, and promotes changes across the local, sub-national and national levels of societies. For these reasons, the book sets standards that I believe all development projects should strive to meet' Maria Norrfalk, Director General, Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida) 'WWF's work on poverty and environment examines concrete activities to empower the poor, link poverty reduction and the environment, and promote changes across the local, subnational and national levels of societies. This work makes a number of solid policy recommendations for bringing about enduring changes in rural livelihoods and resource management' Louis Michel, EC Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
