Migrants, Merchants and Refugees

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-126
Author(s):  
Laurent Bonnefoy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The World

This fourth chapter opens the second section of the book, focusing on the various interactions of Yemenis with the world. It highlights the share that Yemenis have taken in shaping societies outside of Yemen throughout history, and more recently in the framework of the war that started in 2015. It focuses in particular on the model of the Hadhrami diaspora but also on the trajectory of migrants in the Gulf countries. The chapter shows how much perspectives for migration have gradually been shrinking in parallel with a growing demand for refuge and economic opportunities, as Yemen is confronted with war and crisis.

Remittance and Economic Development of Nepal

Patan Pragya ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-208
Author(s):  
Badri Narayan Sah
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Internal Sources ◽  
Sources Of Capital

Nepal is one of the least developed but high remittances recipient countries in the world. Nepal received remittance from US$ 8.1 billion in 2016 and it is ranked 23rd among the remittance receiving countries in the world. Remittance income is one of the major sources of capital formation in the context of Nepal. It is directly related with the labour migration in a country which in return enhances foreign employment. Remittances have become a major contributing factor to increasing household income as well as country’s GDP. About 30 percent of Nepal’s GDP comes in the form of remittance money which is sent home by Nepalese working abroad and it helps to reduce country’s poverty rate. Poverty reduction took place in Nepal from 42 percent (1995/96) to 25.2 percent (2010/11). Nepal’s remittance recipients reached 31.5 percent GDP in 2015. The total amount of remittance in the country is 259 billion and among which 20 percent is internal sources, 11 percent from India and 69 percent from Gulf countries. Remittance received by the households is mainly used for daily consumption (79 percent) and remaining other purposes. Moreover, Nepal’s economic status mostly depends on remittance received which is therefore migration driven economy.

The Whites Got the Best

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-120
Author(s):  
John M. Coggeshall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World

This chapter presents the story of Liberia during the early twentieth century, through the Depression and the world wars. As the nation’s economy changes, African Americans continue to abandon the region for better economic opportunities as they are also forced out by restrictive Jim Crow segregation and racialized attacks. Both Soapstone Baptist Church and Soapstone School continue, critical anchors for community identity. Some residents return to care for aging relatives. The story of Liberia is presented through the memories of elderly residents and some local historical sources, including obituaries.

Green economy indicators for Poland and other European Union countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Dorota Wyszkowska ◽  
Anna Rogalewska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The World ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Different Parts

Economic crises affecting different parts of the world have forced world leaders to seek new paths of development, taking into account the needs of environmental protection and prevention of adverse effects of human activities. One of these roads may be ”green growth” leading to the achievement of ”green economy”. Monitoring the state of green economy in Poland is possible due to certain indicators, among which is defined the group of measures relating to economic opportunities and policy responses. The aim of this article is to present the mentioned above group of indicators. The article is divided into two parts. The first one shows the theoretical issues relating to the green economy and indicators to measure it, with particular emphasis on the selected group. While the second is devoted to presenting the Polish situation in the background of other European Union countries in terms of the indicators of the economic opportunities and policy responses.

Risiko und HIV / Aids in Botswana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Bochow
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The World ◽  
Experience Of Illness ◽  
Hiv Aids

Botswana, one of the few middle-income countries in Africa, has one of the highest HIV rates in the world. In her book Astrid Bochow deals with the Botswana middle class, which has formed since the 1980s: How do these privileged groups handle the permanent threat of infection and the experience of illness and loss? How does their everyday life in family and partnership look like? And what new social and economic opportunities open up for them in the crisis? The author analyzes the resulting political, medical and social discourses on family and health.

scholarly journals Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reece Jones ◽  
Md. Azmeary Ferdoush
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The World

<div>The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people in 2015 alone displaced by conflict, the majority of these coming from Asia. This book offers a deep engagement with individuals whose lives were shaped by encounters with borders: by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, Muslims from India living in Gulf countries for work, and the traumatic journey of a young Afghan man as he sets off on foot towards Germany. </div><div>The international and interdisciplinary work in this book analyses how mobility and diaspora are engaged in literature and media and how the lives of migrants are transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe, coalescing in a timely portrait of migrancy and undesired mobility. </div><div><br></div>

scholarly journals Geopolitics of the High North and its consequences

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryszard M. Czarny
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World

Abstract The increased interest in the Arctic by global players is generated by new economic opportunities related to commercial maritime transport, development of oil and gas deposits, mining, fisheries, and tourism. The natural results are closer economic and geopolitical relations between the Arctic and the rest of the world. Many observers perceive this development as a source of growing conflict because of competition related to control over the natural resources of the region. It seems also quite clear that the Arctic cannot follow its own original way of development which would be independent from the global power system.

PROSPECTS FOR INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE

1970 ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulla Walid Latif ◽  
Z. R. Kodzhakova
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
World Economy ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Gcc Countries ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

The article is devoted to the main issues of trade and economic cooperation between Russia and the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf which includes Bahrain, Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar and Oman (hereinafter GCC). Despite the steady growth of the economic indicators of the Gulf countries (GDP growth rates of the GCC countries are higher than the world average) and tremendous success in strengthening positions in the world economy, the problem of food security in the region is quite acute. Actually, these countries focused on what they consume and will continue to do so, since local production of most of the food they need is not viable. In our article we tried to show that the development of diversification in the food sector of the Gulf countries requires a reorientation of investment flows. Today, the interest of Arab investors in versatile cooperation with Russia has seriously increased: the interest of the Governments and business circles of the GCC countries in the development of trade, investment and scientific and technical ties with Russia has increased.

The Coevolution of Tourism and Agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Anne-Mette Hjalager
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
Further Development

Coevolution is a term borrowed from biology, and is used to describe the development of two different populations under mutually interdependent circumstances. This article addresses tourism and food production in a coevolution context. Twenty-one examples from around the world illustrate the formats of coevolution, which benefits tourism and food production alike. While these initiatives are not (yet) mainstream in tourism, they nevertheless constitute changes that match tourism trends in the demand for food experiences with wider meaning and significance. For agriculture and food production, tourism opens new possibilities for diversification and economic opportunities that move beyond traditional business models. Its contribution lies in further development in evolutionary and environmental economists' work on socioenvironmental coevolution, and interaction between human and biophysical systems, which are systematized and discussed according to six characteristics: specificity, reciprocity, simultaneity, genetic fixing, boundary crossing, and organically derived.

“Theory of IRE with (α,β,γ) Norm”

2017 ◽  
pp. 274-347
Author(s):  
Ranjit Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Complete Solution ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Engineering Model ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Promotion Policy ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The World

This chapter introduces a new theory called by “Theory of IRE with (a,ß,?) Norm” which provides an almost complete solution for Higher Education Management (HEM) & Policy Administration in any vast country like India, China, France, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, USA, UK, Canada, Gulf countries and others in the world. The “Theory of IRE with (a,ß,?) Norm” is an engineering model for solving HEM problems, basically seven major problems which are about: (i) How To Continuously Monitor The Real Time Progress of Research Work of the Ph.D. Scholars in the Universities/Institutions in any country by a Common Rule of the ‘Ministry of HRD' (ii) A New Improved Method for Recruitment of Teachers in Universities (iii) A New Method for Promotion Policy of Teachers In Universities (iv) How to select the ‘Most Suitable Candidate' for the various prestigious awards/honors in a country (v) How to restrict the publications of bad quality research papers in fake/bad journals? (vi) How to select the true experts for every visiting team of NAAC of UGC? and (vii) How to select the ‘Most Suitable Candidates' to fill-up the reserved quota. It is claimed that if this new theory be implemented by the ‘Ministry of HRD (MHRD)' in all its universities/institutions, then a huge amount of quality-assurance can be achieved in pursuance of Excellence in Higher Education Management & Policy Administration in that Country.

Fourth Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-114
Author(s):  
Nikhil Govind
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Rural Childhood

The fourth chapter stays within this older tradition. Saratchandra Chatterjee’s Srikanta is to many the canonical Indian novel—it too is a bildung, following the protagonist from a wayward rural childhood into adulthood via many quests for livelihood and love. The protagonist Srikanta is far removed from a typical bourgeois clerical life. His life is often made via several fascinating female protagonists who educate him into the joys of non-conformity and courage. The chapter also includes a discussion of Rabindranath Tagore’s Garden—though less appreciated, the Garden is a fine meditation on illness and love. Unlike the infinitely mobile characters in Srikanta (male and female), here the ill female protagonist watches the world unfold in front of her (including her husband’s interest in another woman) even as she lies pinned to a bed.

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