Thread: World banker and his cash return home

[quote]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

March 17, 2008
World Banker and His Cash Return Home
By JASON DePARLE
SINDHEKELA, India — An important man from the World Bank recently arrived in this isolated village, where monkeys prowl rutted roads, rain pours through the school roof and the native son who achieved the most did so by going away.

Lessons about global poverty were waiting, but so were his sisters’ chapattis. Migrant and migration scholar, Dilip Ratha was home.

No one has done more than Mr. Ratha to make migration and its potential rewards a top-of-the-agenda concern in the world’s development ministries. And no place has done more to shape his views than this forgotten hamlet, where he studied under the lone streetlight and began a poor boy’s improbable journey to the front ranks of an elite field.

“When I think about the effects of migration, I think about Sindhekela,â€

[quote]“I understand the costs of migration,â€

Please tell Mr. Ratha that we don't need his migrants coming in and taking our jobs and sending OUR money back to their relatives. That is a huge and dangerous drain on money that should be invested right here!!!!

When you are as rich as him guilt becomes a factor in the liberal attitude.

[quote]He does worry that his generosity may have hurt his half-brother, Tarun, who spent the money on gadgets and a motorcycle and did not finish high school. At 23, he is unemployed and the family blames remittance dependency. “I think it has affected his drive in a negative way,â€

tencz57 wrote:

When you are as rich as him guilt becomes a factor in the liberal attitude.

I agree! Rich guilt is the problem with many of our politicians, including Bush.