Coady International Institute
Occasional Paper Series, No. 9
March 2011
Gord Cunningham
This paper offers a “how-to” guide for constructing and using a popular economic analysis tool called the leaky bucket. By documenting its use for community-driven monitoring of the main flows of money coming into and out of the local economy, the paper shows how people at the grassroots can employ this tool to identify ways of improving the economic health of their households and communities.
