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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Informal Economies"”.
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Informal Economies
In this monograph I introduce informal economies in macroeconomic models to study the following issues: (i) How should governments conduct monetary and fiscal policies in the presence of the shadow economy? (ii) How do labor market policies, regulations and mandated benefits affect the size of the …
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Dadaab’s Hidden Ties: How Colonial Legacies and Informal Economies Contribute to Protracted Refugee Situations
… and domination in Kenya, and (2) Dadaab as an informal economic power center, as two ‘hidden ties’ that contribute to Dadaab’s persistence. By identifying and exploring hidden ties that contribute to PRS, policy-makers and power brokers gain a deeper understanding of the realities of the hidden …
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Impact of Mobile Money Usage on Microenterprise Evidence from Zambia
… Given developing countries are powered by informal economies that traditionally have had limited access to information technologies, mobile payment system infrastructure has the potential to transform the way microenterprises conduct business. Through a pilot study in Livingstone, Zambia, I …
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Fútbol, Politics, and Corruption
… Germany through the perspective of state power, informal economies, and international migration. Lastly, this research portrays the mindset of Argentine and German politicians over the last century by analyzing the actions of the elites within the football clubs and organizations under the guise …
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Wet Chicago: Prohibition and the Development of the Informal Alcohol Economy
… This dissertation seeks to understand the informal economy in alcohol by examining the multitude of men and women who participated in this black market in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The analysis describes the movement from small-time bootleggers operating within a narrow market to the …
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Re-crafting Architecture in Philippi + the everyday - Developing the urban potentials and sites of production in the Cape Flats
… to surface relevant ongoing development of the informal economies and micro-industries shaping Philippi. This provides valuable information aiding in the understanding of the existing conditions of Philippi. The focus area of the Philippi Industrial Precinct sits on the eastern periphery of Cape …
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The missing middle : nascent potential in South Africa's commercial environment
… was interested in the gap between two disparate economies in South Africa, those that in oversimplified terms are referred to as the formal and informal economies. Architecture: I was interested in the fact that this disparity was reflected in the types of retail buildings seen in South Africa - …
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Postemancipation Landscapes and Material Culture: The Bethel Community and the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation
… agriculture and developing formal and informal economies, while in many instances continuing to labor through the production of commercial cotton on white owned land. Drawing upon diverse sources including archaeology, archival research, forms of oral history, art, and landscape, I …
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Essays on Development Economics
… asymmetries can be high due to the prevalence of informal economies. Meanwhile, households often struggle to access quality education and healthcare, leading to lower levels of human capital. Taken together, these factors can significantly hinder opportunities for economic progress. This thesis …
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Aladdin's Magic Lamp: Developing Methods for Calibration and Geolocation Accuracy Assessment of the DMSP OLS
… including mapping urban areas, estimating informal economies, and estimating urban populations. Given the extensive and increasing list of applications a repeatable method for assessing geolocation accuracy, performing inter-calibration, and defining the minimum detectable brightness would …
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Free Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaican Economy and Society 1760-1834
… visibility in the island’s formal as well as informal economies, and the wealth accumulated by some, was unsurpassed in a British American context. However, in this slave society, free women’s prosperity rested upon the exploitation and oppression of others. In contrast to familiar historical …
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Exploring the formal and informal distribution mechanisms for Colombian documentary films
… embodies the contradictions between formal and informal economies as well as between legitimate and illegitimate ways to obtain access to films and other media.Considering this situation, the main concern of this research is to review and analyse the different mechanisms that have been used to …
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Changing patterns of female employment in rural England, c. 1790-1890
… range of tasks women undertook in the formal and informal economies of the nineteenth-century countryside. However the nature of the surviving sources means that women’s paid employment in the formal economy of nineteenth-century rural England forms the main focus of the thesis. Women’s employment …
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Digital finance and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
… banking to be higher in medium to large-sized informal economies. Lastly, unemployment is significant and positively related to welfare through digital financial inclusion and education, due to opportunities created in the informal sector.
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Towards a multifaceted understanding of the evolution of an Information System Ecosystem: The case of a mobile payment systems implementation and its contextual impact in South Africa
… with an almost equal balance between formal and informal economies coined hybrid economies, shifting focus to the interplay between ICT4D and mainstream IS governed by a continuously changing context. A gap arose to understand the evolution of the IS ecosystem beyond the organisational confines, …
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Measuring Medicinal Nontimber Forest Product Output in Eastern Deciduous Forests
Nontimber forest products (NTFPs) play an important role in the lives of people who rely on forests. An absence of data on the size of harvests, their location, and the economic value of NTFPs prevents effective management and full utilization by all stakeholder groups. We set out to measure one …
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Enterprising Somali refugees in Cape Town: beyond informality, beyond the spaza shop
… is contested, framed in relation to township informal economies and debates on xenophobia. Research to-date, however, focuses almost exclusively on Somali informal micro-enterprises in the spaza shop sector. To address this gap in the research and debate, this thesis examines Somali …
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Three essays on financial inclusion in Africa and the Middle East
… included while nearly 98 million people are informally served. It is also estimated that approximately US $3 billion is kept under mattresses in Sub Saharan Africa (Demirguc-Kunt, Klapper, Singer, Ansar, & Hess, 2018). The main goal of financial inclusion is to improve the range, quality, and …