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Migrating into financial markets : how remittances became a development tool /
"We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances--the resources of some of the world's lea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
Online access: Ubiquity Press Ubiquity Press Open Books. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances--the resources of some of the world's least affluent people--have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental contributor to development in the migrant-sending states of the global South. This book analyzes how the connection between remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a variety of institutional settings, from national government agencies and international development organizations to nongovernmental policy foundations and think tanks"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520960930 0520960939 |