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Diaspora Aid
There is little doubt that the development of Guyana over the last 20 years has been driven, in part, by the massive resource input of money, goods and skills contributed by the Guyana Diaspora. The desire of Guyanese to assist required no prompting from third parties. This support has been taking place for a very long time and has grown so substantially that it has overtaken official aid flows as an important component of domestic spending. Official aid usually goes to the government who decides how that money should be spent. Diaspora aid works differently. It goes directly to the people who need it. As a consequence, many studies agree that diaspora aid helps to reduce poverty.
Appealing and Effective
There are two characteristics of diaspora interventions that make diaspora contributions appealing and effective. One is that the interventions are usually in response to a well-defined problem. The aid can be for consumption purposes, investment purposes or community support. The need, whether from a family unit or from the community at large, usually is clearly in the form of a specific request for help and the problem is often well understood by the
