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Title:

Transnational transfers and global development / edited by Stuart S. Brown.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xvi, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

International business enterprises--Finance.
Emigrant remittances.
Conflict management.
Globalization--Political aspects.

Other Authors:

Brown, Stuart Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: toward a theory of transnational transfers / Stuart Brown -- Remittances -- Collective remittances as non-state transnational transfers : patterns of transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador / Katrina Burgess and Beatriz Tinajero -- Remittances and fragile states : what do we know? / John McPeak -- Foreign remittances in Ghana : reducing the poverty gap for individuals and the community / Deborah Pellow -- Ideas -- Global civil society and the third sector in China / Hongying Wang -- Corporate support of NGO transnational transfers in nature protection / Steven R. Brechin and Ana Jamborcic -- Learning democracy : international education and political socialization / Bandita Sijapati and Margaret G. Hermann -- Security -- Track two diplomacy and the transfer of peacebuilding capacity / Bruce W. Dayton -- Transnational transfers and peace operations : the empirically elusive quality of the analytic categories / Robert A. Rubinstein and Suprita Kudesia -- Private security companies and private transnational transfers / Ren©♭e de Nevers -- Conclusion: this volume and future study / Stuart Brown.

Series:

International political economy series

ISBN:

023028440X (alk. paper)
9780230284401 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)772711860

LCCN:

2011052936

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)