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Record Nr.

UNISA996328040503316

Autore

Bakker Matt <1971->

Titolo

Migrating into Financial Markets : How Remittances Became a Development Tool / / Matt Bakker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2015

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-520-96093-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 283 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

332.0

Soggetti

Emigrant remittances

Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.