Risks and Reconstruction
Subtitle: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees
Contributors: Michael M. Cernea (Editor); Christopher McDowell (Editor)
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780821344446
Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Refugees; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Emigration & Immigration; Developing countries; Forced migration; Land settlement; Relocation (Housing)
First sentence: During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period.