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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    181: South Asia’s Economic Changes and Diaspora Groups

    Shahid Javed Burki, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, ISAS

    19 March 2014

    The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the interaction of the Diaspora groups and the countries from which they came, a profound structural change is occurring in the South Asian societies. The business community will do well to recognise both the pace and direction of change that is taking place. A new set of opportunities, not fully understood, has arisen, waiting to be grasped.