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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Informal Retail"”.
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Right to Sell: Politics of Informal Retail in the Neoliberal Era.
… driven by selfish pecuniary gain, then why are informal street vendors regularly evicted and harassed by neoliberal states in cities around the world? To answer this, I analyze the literature on neoliberalism and the informal economy and provide new theoretical insight into the internal …
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VAT Reform in a Developing Country. A CGE Model with an Informal Sector
… the zero-rating of food. I incorporate an informal retail sector in the supply of goods with two distinctive features: an indirect tax on the informal retail sector and a productivity gap between the formal and informal retail sectors. In the model the efficiency effect of the reform not …
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Using Supervised Learning Methods to Credit Score Informal Merchants
… capital is a significant challenge for the informal retail sector, where better financial products are not easily accessible. This study aims to address this issue by developing data-driven credit scoring models for informal merchants using supervised learning methods. The study uses data …
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'Flea-ting' Markets: Commodities, Consumption and Value in a Flea Market in Singapore
… focus on mainly on `formal?, conventional retail spaces such as shopping malls. Indeed, shopping malls are primary and significant sites of consumption in the `modern? nation-state of Singapore, and play an important role both in its cityscape, as well as in the everyday consumption …
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Fertile ground: enhancing local food production in Delft, South Africa
… This forces low-income communities to rely on informal retail to supply healthy foods, often at a premium, both for user and supplier. Food supply chains are dispersed resulting in high food costs and over-reliance on an extensive transportation sector. My project aims to decrease this …
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The In-between: Armature for Inhabitation
Flyovers, or grade separated bridges or roads, are a type of urban infrastructure that has been used to facilitate high-speed vehicular movement. This once-popular strategy of the west, despite being considered as a failure for sustainable urban growth, has been adopted in Bangladesh to combat …