| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing the remittances-to-development agenda : Migration, remittances, and development -- three vignettes -- Facts, figures, and the politics of measurement : the construction and diffusion of remittances as a financial flow -- Forging the remittances-to-development nexus : conceptual linkages and political practices -- Bringing remittances into the North American economic-integration project : a genealogy of Mexican state-led transnationalism -- From promise to practice : towards financial democracy in North America. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Luminos, viewed October 29, 2015). |
| Subject |
Emigrant remittances.
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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Emigrant remittances -- Mexico.
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Emigrant remittances -- North America.
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Economic development.
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Economic development -- Mexico.
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Economic development. (OCoLC)fst00901785
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Emigrant remittances. (OCoLC)fst00908685
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00908694
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Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
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North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bakker, Matt, 1971- Migrating into financial markets. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015] 9780520285460 (DLC) 2015016449 (OCoLC)908250493 |
| ISBN |
9780520960930 (electronic bk.) |
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0520960939 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520285460 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0520285468 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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