NEWS: NEW FACULTY BOOK: Min Ye on the economic power of Chinese and Indian diasporas

Professor Min Ye, a specialist in the political economy of China and India at the Pardee School of Global Studies, and the Academic Coordinator at the BU Center for the Study of Asia, just published (August 2014) with Cambridge University Press a stimulating book titledDiasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India. Both hardback and electronic versions are available. 

This comparative and historical analysis explores the important role of Chinese and Indian diasporas as major players in the economic growth of their respective homelands in recent decades.  Min Ye reveals that, through their foreign direct investments (FDIs), Chinese diasporas, rather than Western nations, have contributed the lion’s share in FDI inflows in that country. She also highlights how returned diasporas were bridges for, and initiators of, Western investment in India.  The book convincingly illustrates that diasporic entrepreneurs helped to build China into the world’s manufacturing powerhouse and that Indian diasporas facilitated their homeland’s success in software services development.

For more information on this new title, please click here.