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标题：Remittances and in-kind products as agency for community development and anti-poverty sustainability: Making a case for Diasporic Nigerians
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作者：Buster C. Ogbuagu
期刊名称：International Journal of Development and Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2186-8662
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：1828-1857
出版社：International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
摘要：Successive governments in Nigeria, having divergent and often personal, rather than community sustainability agendas hav e increasingly impoverished the citizenry, leaving them with no hope for self, family and community actualization and sustenance. Over the course of the installation of many rouge governments, individuals and communities who hitherto were self-sufficient were, through badly formulated, badly implemented policies and unbridled corruption, literally stripped of their means of livelihood and in most cases, also their dignity. Family members who could no longer take the abuse and had the courage and wherewithal to undertake such venture, left the country in search of livelihood and sustenance for themselves and their families. As Diasporas, they began and have been remitting money and otherin-kind products to their homebound family members. In this regard, and more than any country in Africa, Nigerians in the Diaspora remit an inordinate and disproportionate amount of money and financial and in-kind products to their families, relatives, friends, business associates and other medium of social engagement. This study explores the impact of such Diasporic remittances and in-kind gifts on the physical, mental and psychological well-being of family members. More poignantly, the study used non-structured interviews, participant and non-participant observation and meta-analysis to underscore the agency of pecuniary remittances and in-kind products for community development, homeostasis and anti-poverty sustainability.
关键词：Remittances;Africa; Diasporic Nigerians; Anti-poverty; Community dev elopment; Self-help; Sustainability; Money Transfer Organizations