How can the United States better serve Muslim communities across the country?

The Aspen Institute Diaspora Investment Alliance (DIA) recently won the 2015 Diversity and Inclusion (DANDI) Award for their work in the Philippines. Learn more about the accomplishments that earned DIA this honor, as well as how to best magnify the positive impact of diaspora communities.

Diasporas, or people who live outside the country in which they or their ancestors historically lived, are increasingly garnering attention as contributors to economic and social development in their countries of origin. The have both the desire and capital to inver in their countries of origin, but there are several barriers to diaspora capital flows.

Global remittances — transfers of money from individuals in a foreign country to their home communities — represent $414 billion in capital flow to the developing world, and are projected to rise to $534 billion by 2015.