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The article discusses the convergence of two potentially positive trends that may help to reduce poverty and environmental deterioration in Central America: the creation of networks by grassroots and environmental organizations, and the spread of information and communication technology. The article is based on research in six highly endangered, protected areas in Central America

Role of the information revolution in reducing the physical and cultural isolation of the poor and in enforcing the process of democratization; cites examples of grassroots movements in Latin America.

External debt, poverty, and the use of natural resources are inextricably linked. This article examines an ethical aspect of that linkage: the social direction of resource flow. It argues that the direction in which a country's economic resources are transferred—from poor to rich, or rich to poor—also sets the pattern for the flow of natural resources. By extension, the same kinds of forces that tend to impoverish human environments also tend to impoverish the physical environment; and conversely, that which tends to restore or promote equity generally tends to be good for the environment. For the past forty years, Costa Rican government policies have been among the fairest and most environmentally progressive in the Third World; yet Costa Rica is heavily in debt in both the economic and environmental sense. Are the "right" policies not right–or are they morally right but not workable? Annis examines this paradoxical question using the notion of "dual debt" and "wrong-way resource flows."

The authors examine how the informal sector may be at the center of a tidal change in the idea how Latin American policy-makers try to revitalize their economies. In a brief response, Peruvian political analyst Luis Pasara challenges some of their conclusions

Rückblick auf die Förderung der dominikanischen Genossenschaftsbewegung unter Trujillo und Darstellung der gegenwärtigen Praxis der Kreditvergabe für die Entwicklung landwirtschaftlicher Kooperativen durch die Zentralbank. Kennzeichnung der Aufgaben der FICOOP bei der Vermittlung von Krediten und Hervorhebung ihrer besonderen sozialen Funktionen angesichts von Naturkatastrophen und weltwirtschaftlicher Rezession