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Since the mid-1970s hundreds of thousands of workers have left the South Asian countries for the Middle East on the basis of temporary labour contracts. Their remittances have become their home countries' most important source of foreign exchange. The author explores the impact of this phenomenon on the economic development of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, focusing on growth and structural change. The results suggest that the South Asian countries experienced a short-term boom due to the workers' remittances. However, disaggregation reveals that behind this apparent boom are sectors which have lagged behind in development. (DÜI-Sen)

Front Cover -- Reihentitel -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Beatrice Knerr: Chinese in Europe: from the early 17th century to present day. An overview -- PART II: CAREER CONTEXT -- Xu Liwang and Yang Taoyu: Qingtian immigrants in Europe: developments and trends in their progress, status, and business affairs -- Kaikai Zhang and Beatrice Knerr: Highly qualified migration from China to Germany. Trends in the early 21st Century -- Xi Zhao and Beatrice Knerr: Ethnic Entrepreneurship of Self-employed Chinese in Germany -- Jing Zhao and Yuan Li: Unbreakable "Glass Ceiling"? Investigating the Living Situation of First Generation Overseas Chinese in Denmark -- PART III: THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE -- Eline Joosten: Studying Abroad and its Consequences for Chinese Language -- PART IV: CULTURAL IDENTITY -- Yue Liu: Cultural identity of the second generation Chinese immigrants: Approaches and prospects of a new research field -- Jieping Fan and Jun Sun: Cultural Memory of Chinese Migrants in Europe: An Analysis of Letters sent from Turin to Wenzhou (1957-1985) -- Yi Fu, Philip Long & -- Rhodri Thomas: Guanxi and the organisation of Chinese New Year festivals in England -- Hong Zhang and Qianqian Zong: The Reception of Mainland China TV Series among Chinese Migrants in Southeast Asia -- Contributors -- Reihe International Labor Migration.

The Straybirds program is the most important agricultural training plan in Taiwan, aimed at attracting a young labor force capable of efficient production to engage in careers in farming. In this paper we investigate the associations between psychological factors and behaviors of Straybirds
trainees, using a survey of 316 participants conducted in 2007. A structural equation model was used to examine causal relationships between the level of agricultural knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the college trainees. Results indicate that agricultural knowledge is a significant
antecedent determinant of the attitudes and practices of participants in the program. In addition, both the agricultural knowledge and attitudes of the participants had positive effects on their behavior in practice.

As measured by its per-capita income, Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, with large parts of its population trapped in poverty within a stunning, but difficult to control natural environment. Under these conditions, since the wake of the 21st century, international labour migration and the associated remittances of large amounts of foreign exchange have rapidly gained influence on the country's economic and social development, triggered by internal disturbances, in particular economic downturn and political upheavals, as well as external dynamics which boosted an uprising international demand for unskilled labour. While there is hardly any basic dissent about the short- to mid-term Positive growth effect for Nepal's economy, surprisingly little is known about the consequences of this form of livelihood security at the individual household level, apart from some anecdotal evidence, although neither policy makers nor NGOs may effectively craft their strategies without considering this phenomenon. This book was developed from an Alumni Workshop held in Kathmandu in 2015, where, focusing on this knowledge gap, wide-ranging original research about the consequences of family members' absence and the receipt of remittances was presented. Moving on from this starting point the authors further elaborated their work to make it accessible to a broader public, and exploitable as a resource for policy making and follow-up research. In addition, this volume includes detailed facts and figures about outmigration from and inflow of remittances to Nepal. With a view to long-term development implications of international migration it also considers the gain of knowledge and access to international academic networks brought into the country by returned scholars. The editor of the volume, Béatrice Knerr, is a professor of development economics, affiliated to the University of Kassel, Germany, where, until 2015, she was heading the Department of Development Economics, Migration and Agricultural Policy (DEMAP). Afterwards she has served as guest professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY) in Merida, Mexico, and at the College of Economics of Hue University, Vietnam. Presently she is on contract with the Brawijaya University of Malang, Indonesia, where she is joining research projects on rural development and teaching various modules in the Economics Faculty. As an expert in the implications of labour migration on the development of low- to middle-income countries she has published and edited around 30 books and 100 journal articles and book chapters.