Miletić, Aleksandar R. (2023) “You Can’t Have Your Pudding and Eat It”? Remittances and Development in Yugoslavia, 1918–1989. In: Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change, Meyer, S., Ströhle, C. (eds). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 53-75.

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Abstract

This chapter explores the governmental remittance-related development strategies in monarchist and socialist Yugoslavia. It analyzes administrative practices and language regarding the actual or envisaged utilization of remittances. It stresses in particular the policymakers’ misconception regarding the nature of remittances as being private and not a disposable public resource as they assumed. This assumption facilitated grand yet impossible developmental designs based on an anticipated transformative impact of remittances. By establishing a comparative perspective with corresponding Turkish developments in the 1970s and 1980s, this chapter investigates whether the Yugoslav economic failure or Turkish relative success of the 1980s can be related to their previous histories of remittance

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