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Sep 27, 2005 · From the early 1990s through the middle of the decade, slightly more than 1.1 million migrants came to the United States every year on average. In the peak years of 1999 and 2000, the annual inflow was about 35% higher, topping 1.5 million. By 2002 and 2003, the number coming to the country was back around the 1.1 million mark.
- Remittances
- Business and Information Networks
- The Diffusion of Skills, Technologies and Knowledge
An important way sending countries benefit from out-migration is through remittance flows. Remittances—money that migrants send back home to friends and family—can be especially important for countries with large diasporas, as they can significantly increase income, consumption, and investment, thus increasing welfare among lower income households ...
Migrants have shown to be particularly effective in reducing bilateral transaction costs, resulting in higher trade and investment flows across borders by creating cross-border networks that facilitate the flow of information. When it comes to trade, several studies have shown that migrants play an important role in reducing non-tariff barriers bet...
One of the most crucial aspects through which diasporas boost determinants of economic growth are by transferring skills, technologies and knowledge across nations. In that sense, diasporas are an important source of diffusion back to their home countries. Why is that? One fact that economist have reached consensus on is that the diffusion of knowl...
- Dany Bahar
- db21@post.harvard.edu
- 2020
Oct 6, 2023 · To present diaspora bonds in a way that feels real, meaningful, and credible, we tailor our discussion of diaspora bonds to specific cases — Pakistan (and, in the Appendix, India) — and field our survey to this diaspora population living in the U.S. Focusing on a specific diaspora population also allows us to hold constant features of the issuing government and the broader diaspora ...
Jul 3, 2024 · United States: green cards granted to the Americas 1820-2019, by country and decade Peak year for Italian arrivals to the U.S. 1907
In the conduct of policy, negative surprises tend. to trip one up and cause a fall unless care has been taken to provide reasonable defenses against contingencies. Joseph Nye, Jr., stresses the need for the United States in the 1990s to develop a realistic sense of the strengths and limits of its power. The.
Jun 6, 2018 · Scholarship on authoritarian regimes’ diaspora engagement has already shown that diaspora voting from abroad can take place in certain authoritarian polities (Brand, 2014; Collyer, 2013) and that non-democracies are much more likely to restrict citizens’ emigration than liberal states. It is unclear to what extent migrant and diaspora engagement by democracies and non-democracies differs ...
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A second phase in the rise of diaspora institutions occurred with the acceleration of cross-border flows within the EU and similar regional integration schemes during the 1990s, as increasingly interdependent states have sought innovative ways to manage rising regional labour mobility (see Figures 2.3 and 2.4). Whereas the names of diaspora institutions in newly minted post-Soviet nation ...
