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... land or work to everyone who wants it and gradually raises the qualifications for membership . The bawon system , for example , has been modified in recent decades to restrict participation to people from the same village , or to ...
... land or work to everyone who wants it and gradually raises the qualifications for membership . The bawon system , for example , has been modified in recent decades to restrict participation to people from the same village , or to ...
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... land , though less for farming than as a form of saving . In the Caribbean , where it was thought that emigration might help reduce pressure on scarce land , it has had the opposite effect , with emigrants buying land speculatively and ...
... land , though less for farming than as a form of saving . In the Caribbean , where it was thought that emigration might help reduce pressure on scarce land , it has had the opposite effect , with emigrants buying land speculatively and ...
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... land prices have also increased in response to remittances : in one community in Dominica it was estimated in 1982 that over a 15 - year period land speculation by migrant households had con- tributed to a 1,000 per cent inflation in land ...
... land prices have also increased in response to remittances : in one community in Dominica it was estimated in 1982 that over a 15 - year period land speculation by migrant households had con- tributed to a 1,000 per cent inflation in land ...
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20 per cent abroad Africa America Arab areas Argentina arrivals Asia Asian asylum Australia Bangladesh Belgium border British CALIFORNIA Canada Caribbean Census Chinese citizens coun cultural developing countries domestic workers earn economic emigration employers employment estimated ethnic European countries example Federal Republic Figure flows foreign-born France Government groups higher Hispanic Hong Kong illegal immigrants immi immigrant workers increase Indian industrialized countries investment Italy Japan Japanese jus sanguinis jus soli Koreans labour force language large numbers largest numbers levels major Malaysia Mexican Mexico Middle East million Muslim native Netherlands overseas particularly Philippines plantations population proportion receiving countries recent recruitment refugees relatively remittances Republic of Germany Republic of Korea SAN DIEGO sending countries shortages skilled SOPEMI/OECD Source South Africa Soviet Union Spain Stanton Russell Taiwan Taiwan China tend tion unemployed United Kingdom unskilled visas wages Western Europe women