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What is COPLA?
Comercio y Pobreza en Latino América (COPLA) is a two-and-a-half-year project funded by the UK Department for International Development. It explores the linkages between trade, poverty and social exclusion. Although there is an active debate in the region on the relationship between trade liberalisation on poverty, little attention has been paid to the different impacts on marginalised groups, whether they be women, youth, indigenous minorities or the rural poor.
COPLA Products
Case studies, opinion and briefing papers
- The wood product value chain in Central America: Honduras and Nicaragua
- Rural community-based tourism in Central America
- The Brazil nut value chain in the northern Amazon region of Bolivia
- Struggling downstream? The trout value chain in Peru
- Organic banana cultivation and fair trade in Peru
- Trading up: How a value chain approach can benefit the rural poor
- Upgrading along value chains: Strategies for poverty reduction in Latin America
- Results of the National Journalism Competition on Foreign Trade and Poverty
- BRIEFING PAPER: The productivity connection behind openness
- OPINION PAPER: Trade and poverty: any help from theory?
- The effects of the global financial crisis in Latin America
- Opinion Papers
- Briefings Papers
- OPINION PAPER: The FTA between Perú and the USA: what about andean peasants?
- Should trade be considered a human right?