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UNINA9910136268603321 |
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Autore |
Bakker Matt <1971-> |
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Titolo |
Migrating into Financial Markets : How Remittances Became a Development Tool / / Matt Bakker |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : PDF, digital file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development - Mexico |
Economic development |
Emigrant remittances - North America |
Emigrant remittances - Mexico |
Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects |
Emigrant remittances |
Electronic books. |
Mexico Emigration and immigration Economic aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introducing the remittances-to-development agenda -- 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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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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UNINA9910704136303321 |
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Titolo |
Altitude and configuration of the potentiometric surface in part of Lower Oxford, East Nottingham, and West Nottingham Townships, and in part of the Borough of Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, April through June, 2003 / / by Abdul Mohammad ; prepared in cooperation with Chester County Water Resources Authority |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 map) : color |
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Collana |
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U.S. Geological Survey scientific investigations map ; ; 2876 |
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Soggetti |
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Water table - Pennsylvania - Chester County |
Water table |
Maps. |
Pennsylvania Chester County |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale cartografico a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Relief shown by contours. |
Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 9, 2015). |
Includes text, 1 location map, and 1 ancillary map. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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