Post-war reconstruction and women: Has the Indian Housing Project become a debt trap?
Following the end of the armed conflict, people returned to their areas of origin in the conflict affected areas with limited, and in some cases no resources, to re-build their lives. This forced them to access new and freely available credit to re-establish a habitable space and restart livelihoods. Due to inexperience managing debt, and the inability of most, whose livelihoods are dependent on the agricultural and fishing sector, to compete with their vulnerabilities in an open and competitive economy, their resources depleted and they slipped into severe debt. Consecutive natural disasters, such as floods and droughts, and the consequent loss of livelihoods have compounded stress on their already limited resources.Post-war reconstruction and women Has the Indian Housing Project become a debt trap.odt by Thavam
