Regional bank meets with evicted railway families
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) met yesterday with the representatives of families evicted or facing eviction to make way for an ADB-funded railway project, and defended itself against complaints that the project was pushing some of them deeper into poverty. The ADB has billed the $142 million plan to rehabilitate the country’s dilapidated track as a chance to cut into the country’s poverty rate by lowering transportation costs. But some of the families who have made the tracks their home and now face eviction say the government is shortchanging them on compensation…
