Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?
Reforming Resettlement through Investments
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-0-19-568713-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides a new impetus to search for practical solutions to forced displacement. It brings to the fore new ideas and policy recommendations which hope to overcome shortcomings or omissions in current thinking, policies and practices.
Reviews / Votes
This book raises critical policy issues that have plagued economists ever since Pareto...Financial solutions derived from a narrow compensation theory can neither improve, nor restore incomes...The authors put forward novel solutions for de-pauperizing those displaced: targeted investments and benefits-sharing, additional to compensation. Development analysts, economists, policy makers, and practitioners stand to gain from...this book. * Irma Adelman, Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Will be of interest to ecologists, development practitioners, state agencies, and policymakers
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-568713-2 (9780195687132)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Michael M. Cernea, Research Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University; Hari Mohan Mathur, Development Management and Resettlement Specialist