21st century finance
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american dollar
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business
business economics
business finance
capitalism
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developing countries
economic development
economics of emigration
economics of immigration
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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
Product details
- ISBN 9780520285460
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Matt Bakker is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Marymount University.
