Les pays du Moyen-Orient et d’Afrique du Nord (MENA) ont la chance de compter sur un patrimoine culturel extraordinaire, laïque et religieux, d’une énorme importance pour chaque pays et pour l’ensemble...
Dr. Michael Cernea, Research Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and former World Bank Senior Advisor for Social Policy and Sociology, wrote a letter in October 2001 to his friend...
The seven studies included in this volume address key social issues in involuntary population resettlement and the use of sociological and anthropological knowledge for inducing socio-economic development...
The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are blessed with an extraordinary cultural patrimony, secular and religious, of huge importance for each country and for humankind at large. The...
This sector review analyzes the policy and operational experiences accumulated by the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the Cultural Heritage (CH) domain over the last five years...
In Africa as well as worldwide, population settlement and resettlement processes are linked to the core of today's development agenda. This paper discusses several common characteristics and issues of...
Why is the construction of hydropower dams, which generate energy that is renewable and cleaner than oil, coal, or nuclear power, increasingly attacked in the press and assaulted by many critics? The answer...
The way we legitimize to others or to ourselves the need for social analysis in development interventions creates a structure of expectations that becomes compelling. In other words, if we argue just the...
Countries in a post-war situation, and the processes of war-to-peace transition, place the social problems of relocating war refugees and displaced population high on the world's agenda, with increasing...
This article discusses an action-research study of development caused population resettlement. The study, conduct from 1993-1994, covered 192 development projects that entailed the displacement and resettlement...
The discourse about social integration usually assumes that it is linked to development, and that 'more' development induces higher degrees of social integration and reduces social conflicts. Yet in reality...
The remarkable progress in social science research on resettlement is defined by the author in terms of a) knowledge acquisition; significant shifts in research trends; and c) development and diversification...
The body of writings described in this volume consists of selected publications authored by sociologists and anthropologists working as regular World Bank staff or as consultants to the Bank. These works...
Since the establishment of the Environment Department in 1987, the Bank has made a concentrated effort to incorporate environmental concerns into its lending and advisory activities. In January of 1993...
Urban economic and social development in the Third World often requires involuntary displacement and relocation of various groups of residents. This process has received little research by urban sociologists...
This paper discusses some aspects of the work carried out by sociologists and anthropologists in the World Bank. It draws upon the author's experience as a sociologist at the Bank and presents views on...
This paper analyzes how Bank-financed irrigation projects deal with the basic organizational characteristics of water user associations in their design and approach. It assesses whether these organizational...
While the intellectual debate concerning the sustainability of induced development is largely limited to the dimensions of economic and environmental sustainability, the author states that the sociocultural...
A pragmatic question that arises during the design and execution of many government programs is this: how can a capacity for mobilizing community participation be built into the project's design and staffing?...
This paper states that to attain good environmental management it is utterly insufficient to address the environmental requirements alone, instead the sociological variables must also be addressed. These...