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Escaping Poverty's Grasp - The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction (Paperback)
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Escaping Poverty's Grasp - The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction (Paperback)
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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, from the failure to place the needs
of the poor at the centre of national development strategies and to
link local level changes to urgently needed changes in national
development policies. This book is designed to change all of that
by showing how change must begin at the local level and, from
there, push upwards to change policies and institutions at higher
levels to remove political, economic and institutional impediments
that stifle opportunities for the rural poor and improved
environmental management. This approach challenges the notion that
poverty reduction and improved natural resource management can
originate with design masters in international organizations or
national capitals.Working with teams in China, Indonesia, El
Salvador, South Africa and Zambia, WWF devised the revolutionary
'3xM' - micro (local), meso (sub-national) and macro (national) -
Approach to analysing and intervening to change the poverty
dimensions in a country. This approach helps improve the local
environment and community livelihoods, and promotes policy and
institutional changes at state/provincial and national levels that
are essential for the sustainable, equitable development. This book
provides both the tools and successful case studies to show
practitioners how to adopt the 3xM Approach in diverse developing
country contexts.
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