ABSTRACT
Bosnia and Herzegovina emerged from the war in the 1990s with a battered economy, a precarious social order and political system, and a population significantly reduced due partly to the many casualties suffered in the years of fighting, but mostly to migration. Resurrecting the economy-and indeed the Bosnian society as a whole-amid such problems and challenges was always going to be a formidable task. Perhaps on the more positive side, however, in terms of the economy, one quite significant result of the mass migration did occur: the large Bosnian diaspora was-and still is-remitting vast amounts of money to their friends and family members back home.
