Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?

In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by large-scale dam, infrastructure and urban regeneration projects, has had unforeseen and damaging results. Contributors to the Development Induced Displacement and Impoverishment Conference held in Oxford, UK, in January 1995 probed these issues and asked, Why can't developers do better?