Some of the more important considerations that the Jamaican government must contemplate before issuing a diaspora bond are the size and wealth of its diaspora; the compactness or dispersion of that diaspora; level of patriotism; integrity and stability of its legal system; and the potential for full subscription of the bond itself.
Drawing again from my own personal experience, I remember using the Survey data in the mid-1970s to calculate the dispersion of earnings among income earners, and its decomposition into the within- and between-sector components, possibly one of the first “official” applications of the exact inequality decomposition proposed by Henry Theil.