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Abstract
Over the past few years, involuntary resettlement has incurred adverse social and economic consequences for those displaced due to the shortcomings of resettlement and rehabilitation policies. Poor planning, implementation, and monitoring during the involuntary resettlement process resulted in unnecessary resettlement that interrupted provision of basic necessities to the people affected. This article attempts to address the severity and scope of this problem by comparatively reviewing past development projects that were accompanied with involuntary resettlement. The article proposes alternative models of development and resettlement that can potentially inform an internationally viable set of standards to be used as an evaluation tool for domestic policies surrounding displacement.
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1. This information was obtained from Shihata (2000) and World Bank (1994; 1998b).
2. This information was obtained from Parasuraman (Citation1996).
3. The Indian poverty line is measured by calculating the essential nutritional account per household. Rs125 is the amount required to satisfy basic consumption needs converted into Rupees (Indian currency).
4. Rehabilitation refers to the process of reconstruction of the livelihood of displaced persons (Sinha, Citation1996).
5. If displacement is unavoidable, all of the eight factors leading to impoverishment should be considered for planning rehabilitation.