Williams, N (2018) Mobilising diaspora to promote homeland investment: The progress of policy in post-conflict economies. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36 (7). pp. 1256-1279. ISSN 2399-6544
Abstract
This paper examines the development of policies which seek to mobilise and maximise the potential of diaspora investment in their home countries. While a great deal of migrant entrepreneurship literature focuses on impacts in the host country, less is known about the impacts of diasporans on home countries. The paper focuses on the three post-conflict Balkan economies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro, each of which has large diaspora communities. Through an analysis of relevant literature and policy documents, the paper shows that post-conflict economies are aiming to mobilise the diaspora in response to negative impacts of economic shocks, which in the case of the Balkans has been caused by the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and wars on the 1990s. Similar strategies are being introduced in the three economies but how these translate into coordinated policy differs, with the ability to effectively mobilise the diaspora impacting on future growth. Contributions to scholarship on diaspora communities and policy approaches are discussed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Keywords: | Diaspora; economic develo; public policy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2017 12:45 |
Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2018 15:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/2399654417752684 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125309 |