1. Diaspora and development : critical issues / Dilip Ratha and Sonia Plaza -- 2. Diaspora and development : case study of the Indo-EU diaspora / Alwyn Didar Singh -- 3. Diaspora and development : theoretical perspectives / Amba Pande -- 4. Diaspora, transnationalism and development / Ajaya...

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...