Foreword
Ethics and Economics in Resettlement Policy and Practice
Michael M. Cernea
A significant event modified India's discourse on development-caused population displacements in 2004, yet without much influencing the ongoing practice of resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) processes. Rather unexpectedly, the government brought out in the Gazette published in February 2004, what at first sight appeared to many, including some news agencies, to be the country's long-awaited national policy on population resettlement issued by the government. But soon additional information clarified that the document was only a draft, published by just one ministry, the Ministry of Rural Development; it had not yet been adopted by the Indian government in its ...
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