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Migrating into financial markets : how remittances became a development tool

Bakker, Matt, 1971- author

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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 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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Emigrant remittances. / Emigration and immigration Economic aspects. / Emigrant remittances Mexico. / Emigrant remittances North America. / Economic development. / Economic development Mexico. / Mexico Emigration and immigration Economic aspects.
• ISBN: 9780520285460, 0520285468

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HG3891.B354 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE