Advantages and obstacles to retrofitting benefit-sharing after development-induced displacement and resettlement
In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Band 39, Heft 5, S. 417-428
ISSN: 1471-5465
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In: Impact assessment and project appraisal, Band 39, Heft 5, S. 417-428
ISSN: 1471-5465
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 118, Heft 2, S. 346-358
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Journal of developing societies: a forum on issues of development and change in all societies, Band 27, Heft 3-4, S. 327-353
ISSN: 1745-2546
Neoliberal approaches to urban restructuring may favor the wealthier and more powerful, but neoliberalism alone cannot account for the varied outcomes found among poor urban residents. Using field studies and documentary research on five cities in French-speaking West Africa and India, this study looks comparatively at how different groups use multiple forms of power to pursue individual and collective benefits. Dominant structures produced contradictory discourses that created spaces that served as terrains of struggle between the more and less powerful. Rich and poor created cross-class alliances that sometimes brought incremental benefits to the poor; the poor also used their agency to pursue individual advancement and collective resistance. These efforts have not changed the basic structures, but they have improved urban living conditions.
In: Journal of developing societies, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 327-354
ISSN: 0169-796X
In Mali, the middle-class diet has changed over time as a result first of colonization & then of globalization. While the middle-class Malians have kept a culturally defined food system, they have adopted many new imported foods. However, in an international discourse that focuses on Mali's poverty, the cuisine of the middle class has been ignored. This chapter looks at changes in Mali's domestic political economy that have facilitated a growing middle class; conducts a subsector analysis to outline the structure of the food system -- from producers to consumers; & analyzes the invisibility of this system & how this influences our understanding of food globalization & development planning. It is concluded that a lack of data on the urban middle-class diet has skewed analyses of food groups, thereby distorting the targeting of foreign aid toward development of export crops, mainly cotton, to the neglect of food crops. References. J. Stanton
This article broadens analytic perspectives on the effects of government interventionsby looking at the interaction of two distinct but simultaneous policy initiatives: involuntary resettlement and structural adjustment. Case study data from the Bafing valley in Mali show that simultaneous implementation of these two initiatives reinforced the economic growth of the zone but increased negative environmental effects.Key Words: Mali, resettlement, structural adjustment, sahel, environmental degradation, economic development, river basin development, privatization, liberalization.
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In: Linking levels of analysis
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 187-211
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 187-211
ISSN: 0305-750X
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 187
ISSN: 0305-750X
In: Social change, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 447-465
ISSN: 0976-3538
The right to compensation and rehabilitation for those displaced by projects is a generally recognised principle of multilateral development institutions and, increasingly, of national governments. There is no such consensus of the concept of benefit-sharing—neither its definition nor realisation. This paper advances this discussion: reviewing past performance of benefit-sharing and anticipating its future rationale, timing and delivery. Drawing upon country laws and project reviews for hydropower, it also briefly examines prospects for another revenue generating sector: mining and non-revenue generating urban projects. It addresses the question: should benefit-sharing be limited to monetary benefits derived only from projects generating revenue during the project operations phase or should a broader concept of benefit-sharing prevail? The authors compare both financial and resettlement logics of each form. In anticipating an uncertain future, they conclude that centralising partnerships and negotiated consent with the resource losers can lead to workable, durable, ethical and effective benefit-sharing.
In: Forced Migration 18
Some ten million people worldwide are displaced or resettled every year, due to development projects, such as the construction of dams, irrigation schemes, urban development, transport, conservation or mining projects. The results have usually been very negative for most of those people who have to move, as well as for other people in the area, such as host populations. People are often left socially and institutionally disrupted and economically worse-off, with the environment also suffering as a result of the introduction of infrastructure and increased crowding in the areas to which people had to move. The contributors to this volume argue that there is a complexity, and a tension, inherent in trying to reconcile enforced displacement of people with the subsequent creation of a socio-economically viable and sustainable environment. Only when these are squarely confronted, will it be possible to adequately deal with the problems and to improve resettlement policies