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From Relief to Development: Food for Work in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
HYDER MASOOD
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1996.tb00512.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , relief work , relevance (law) , political science , economic growth , environmental planning , engineering , forensic engineering , medicine , geography , economics , medical emergency , law , mechanical engineering
The National Food‐assisted Works Programme for Water and Land Development in Bangladesh which began as a relief operation in 1975, was designed to evolve gradually into a development‐oriented programme. This complex and largely successful transition offers a study in change of relevance to the current debate on the relief–development continuum. What emerges from a review of the Bangladesh experience is that the transition from relief to development is as complex as it is desirable, and that while there is a ‘continuum of sorts if it can be reached, getting there has lately become more arduous.’