1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786681003321

Autore

Todoroki Emiko

Titolo

Making remittances work : balancing financial integrity and inclusion / / Emiko Todoroki, Wameek Noor, Kuntay Celik, Anoma Kulathunga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , 2014

ISBN

1-4648-0110-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Collana

Directions in development

Disciplina

332/.04246

Soggetti

Emigrant remittances

Migrant remittances

Foreign exchange

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- How remittance markets operate -- Overview of remittances market business models and agent networks -- Risks associated with remittance transactions -- Regulatory frameworks for money transfer businesses -- Regulating market entry for money transfer businesses -- Supervisory frameworks for money transfer businesses -- Broader policy conclusions enabling the promotion of financial inclusion while achieving financial integrity -- References -- Boxes -- Figures -- Tables.

Sommario/riassunto

H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development stated that 'the impact of helping migrants and their families will be lasting and global if we link remittances to other financial services and make them more affordable and more relevant to their needs."" Remittances are a critical source of financing for most developing countries. The importance of remittances goes beyond numbers. For many households in developing countries, they are probably the most stable source of primary or additional income. At the same time,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971684103321

Autore

Klaver Elizabeth

Titolo

Sites of autopsy in contemporary culture / / Elizabeth Klaver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005

ISBN

9780791483428

0791483428

9781423744108

1423744101

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

The SUNY series in postmodern culture

Disciplina

616.07/59

Soggetti

Autopsy - Social aspects

Autopsy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Autopsy -- Performance, Autopsy, and the Performative -- Autopsy and the Subject; or, What the Dead Saw -- Autopsy and the Social -- Autopsy and the Popular -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the "real" thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of pedagogical, legal, scientific, and social functions, and the autopsied cadaver, Klaver shows, has lately become one of the most spectacular bodies offered up to the public on film, television, and the Internet. Setting her discussion within the history of the modern autopsy, and including the narrative of her own attendance at a medical autopsy, Klaver makes the autopsy readable in a number of diverse venues, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson and Vesalius's Fabrica to The Silence of the Lambs, The X-Files, and CSI. Moving from the actual autopsy itself to its broader symbolic ramifications, Klaver addresses questions as disparate as the social constructedness of the body, the perception and treatment of death under late capitalism, and



the ubiquity of paranoia in contemporary culture.