Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?
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Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment? contributes significantly to the international public debate on development-caused displacement and resettlement. The book rejects the long-held thesis that compensation is in itself enough to restore and improve the livelihoods disrupted by displacement.Instead, the authors of this volume, a group of the world's best known resettlement scholars-sociologists, anthropologists, economists, ecologists and legal experts-recommend changing displacement policies, laws and practices, by adding investment financing and ex-post benefit-sharing to full compensation.
Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment? comes at a time when those displaced are increasingly opposing impoverishment by forced displacement. Their voices, argue the authors, speak of basic needs and human rights, and must be heard.
Reviews
"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
"[An] essential reading for all policy makers...As the book's title emphasizes, resettlement must be reformed through benefit sharing and development investments."--Thayer Scudder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology
"Cernea's and Mathur's book places avoidance of impoverishment squarely in the realm of the economics and financing of resettlement...with empirical evidence ranging widely from China to Brazil...this book is an important contribution...It offers a line of solutions...to those who must implement them."--Vasudha Dhagamwar, Formerly with the Multiple Action Research Group (MARG), New Delhi
About the Author(s)
Michael M. Cernea is Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University, and is a former Senior Adviser for Social Policies of the World Bank.
Hari Mohan Mathur is Visiting Professor at the Council for Social Development in New Delhi, India.
