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Migrants have long faced unwarranted constraints to sending money to family members and relatives in their home countries, among them costly fees and commissions, inconvenient formal banking hours, and inefficient domestic banking services that delay final payment to the beneficiaries. Yet such remittances are perhaps the largest source of external finance in developing countries. Officially recorded remittance flows to developing countries exceeded US$125 billion in 2004, making them the second largest source of development finance after foreign direct investment. This book demonstrates that governments in developing countries increasingly recognize the importance of remittance flows and are quickly addressing these constraints.
This book has been designed for instructors in higher education or adult training who wish to develop a new course or revise an existing one. It adopts a practical, visual, and modular approach based on the principle of constructive alignment. At its heart is the canvas, a document containing all the major aspects of a course. With its three-step approach and solid theoretical basis, this book encourages instructors to engage in a reflective practice that will allow them to define their vision of teaching, design or revise a course, and develop their teaching skills.
In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously, showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of human language manifests itself within a language and/or across languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are investigated in depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or experimentally. This volume will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2024, held in London, UK, during January 17–19, 2024. The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The accepted papers span a range of topics related to functional and logic programming, including reactive programming, hardware implementations, implementation of marketplaces, query languages, and applications of declarative programming techniques to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
This design for future-ready human resources is a futurist guide to the challenges and changes lying ahead in the world of work and offers a way forward. The world of work is evolving at an exponential rate, and significant shifts are expected. COVID-19 was a warm-up lap and an accelerator of changes, but many still lie ahead. Those changes are rarely addressed in current general HR thinking. At the same time, the growing complexity is making employees and employers alike anxious about the future of work. This is an academic-grade book backed up by evidence-based trends and signals and offers pragmatic upskilling pathways. It is priceless in such an environment for forward-looking scholars a...
Le protoypage pédagogique permet aux étudiants de se confronter au réel en testant un apprentissage en cours par exemple, ou en intentant une action qui développe une nouvelle compétence. Nombreux sont les cursus d’enseignement supérieur qui mettent en place un tel outil dans leur dispositif didactique, tant il constitue une expérience d’apprentissage riche et complète pour la réussite et l’autonomisation des étudiants. Cependant, les enseignants se trouvent parfois démunis face aux difficultés d’accompagnement qu’il peut susciter. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de penser le rôle et la place du prototypage dans l’enseignement supérieur. Il propose dix exemples concrets...