Toward local development and mitigating impoverishment in development-induced displacement and resettlement

It asks why guidelines to improve resettlement while avoiding impoverishment have failed to transform resettlement experiences. It addresses issues such as the gaps in existing theory and policy, the ability of resettlement programmes to address economic and power issues, how to improve theory, policy and practice so that resettlement ensures greater equity and growth, and the potential problems involved in moving from an economic approach to a more explicitly political-economic one.