Macroeconomic Reforms in Southern Africa
The overarching objective of this project is to build capacity in four countries of southern Africa to ensure that environmental issues are integrated into the design and implementation of their respective macroeconomic programs.
The Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office (MPO) has in two previous studies analyzed the environmental impacts of economic instruments on a national level. These studies, carried out in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, documented direct
links between macroeconomic polices and sustainable development. In collaboration with the donor community, the MPO has developed this project, which is seeking new approaches to structural reforms through implementation of alternative policies.
The overall objective of the project is to implement economic reforms in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe that integrates economic, environmental and social issues, and that will benefit the poorest section of the population. The project objec
tive is to enhance the capacity of policy makers and stakeholders to integrate environmental issues into macroeconomic reform programs. A second objective is to work with Government Aid Agencies (GAA) to develop approaches to structural reforms which prom
ote environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation.
The Program is funded by WWF, EC, Sida, CIDA, DANIDA, BMZ, and SDC.
---Published in 1992 (Structural Adjustment and the Environment) and 1995 (Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development), two comprehensive MPO studies have documented the direct link
between economic reform programs and environmental problems in a range of developing countries.
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