Migrating into Financial Markets (eBook)

How Remittances Became a Development Tool

Matt Bakker (Autor)

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2015
292 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96093-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 remittancesthe resources of some of the world's least affluent peoplehave 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.9.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: 21st century finance • American dollar • business • business economics • business finance • Capitalism • Developing Countries • Economic Development • economics of emigration • economics of immigration • financial democracy • Global Economics • Global Finance • immigrants sending money home • migrant remittances • migrants sending money home • migrants with money • Migration • migration and money • MONEY • money and power • money matters • National Development • politics of measurement
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96093-9 / 0520960939
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96093-0 / 9780520960930