Neighborhood investment, in which members of the community are given opportunities to become partial owners of new developments, is another method.
[2] In Brazil, studies found that more than a third of the profits generated from tourism were exported to absentee business owners.
[3] In Vietnam, the economic expansion of the 1990s was associated with a rise in absentee business owners.
[4] There has also been concern that tourism profits in Southern Africa go to absentee business owners.
[6] In the United States, many business-owning military reservists have become absentee business owners during long tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.