Unfortunately, the main effect of such schemes was to enrich local elites and leave millions as deprived as ever.
But opponents have warned that many of the proposals are shortsighted and are intended, in part, to enrich local officials and state-dominated energy companies.
It began in March 2011, with a £250,000 grant from Pathways, a not-for-profit organisation that backs projects which enrich local communities.
As long as regulations enrich local bureaucrats and lawyers, would-be business people in countries such as Haiti will have to keep waiting.
Most recently in New Jersey, for example, Jon Corzine, the multimillionaire Democratic Senate candidate, spent tens of thousands of dollars of his own money to enrich local Democratic committees around the state.
New investment projects used to be seen as the best way to keep the Chinese public happy with jobs and rising incomes, assuring social stability — a paramount goal of the Communist Party — while frequently enriching local politicians as well.
Top officials are worried that the property rush — which has led to soaring prices for urban real estate and low prices for old homes and farmland seized for development — is enriching local governments and well-connected developers at the expense of ordinary people and social stability.
Here, contrary to most other studies, we ask how human-associated severe changes in the environment can be used to enrich local biodiversity.
Decomposing animals alter soil biogeochemical cycles, and these natural ephemeral nutrient patches (or 'hotspots') are important for maintaining landscape heterogeneity and enriching local biodiversity.
We conclude that peatlands contribute to enrich local and regional avian diversity, particularly in the lowlands of the Saint Lawrence River, where industrial pressure on peatlands is highest.
