Alejandro Portes
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Language
English
Description
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country's population is foreign-born. Spanish Legacies, written by internationally known experts on immigration, explores how the children of immigrants - the...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 p.)
Language
English
Description
"What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of institutions in five Latin American countries and how they...