This site brings you the all the news and resources from the Trade and Poverty in Latin America programme (COPLA), a 2-year project funded by the UK Department for International Development. It will investigate how trade and trade-related policies can be used to harness the potential of trade for poor people and minimise its negative impacts. It will also improve the dialogue on trade policy and poverty between policymakers and those who represent the poor.
Research, dialogue and capacity building will focus on the links between trade, poverty and social exclusion (gender, indigenous peoples, lagging regions), as well as ways in which small and medium enterprises can better take advantage of new market opportunities.
The project involves the following organisations:
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK
- Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES), Peru
- Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC), Argentina
- Grupo Nacional de Trabajo para la Participación (GNTP), Bolivia
- Research and Development Institute Nitlapán of the Central American University (Nitlapán), Nicaragua
- La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Argentina.
Information is provided in both English and Spanish.