Kinship, honour and money in rural pakistan: subsistence economy and the effects of international migration
Auteur :
Lefebvre, Alain
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781138974036
Date de publication :
23 août 2018
Dimensions :
19,8 x 12,9 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Rural poverty combined with Pakistan's labour-market policies forces many Punjabi men to seek work abroad. Remittances home have gone into conspicuous consumption rather than economic development; the validity of the use of migration as a development strategy is thus questioned.