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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Informal business"”.
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Traditional healing at Umlazi Township as part of informal business
… There were those who walked to their places of business. The costs of transport were low, between R50 and R79 per month. The healers could not tell with precision what their monthly incomes were, they did not keep records of income and expenditure. Most of the healers had only primary education …
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Incubated dimension : an urban campus for informal business development at the Grand Parade
This dissertation is inspired by the age of digital media as a mode of cultural production. This project aims to uncover how social interaction is shaped by digital space and its effects on physical space. This is an exploration of an architecture which mediates between the tensions and …
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Informal business enterprises and their impact on the sustanability of the city of Pietermaritsburg
… has recently been an increase of clusters of informal business operators in different parts of the city of Pietermaritzburg. Allegations have been made that street vending causes pollution of the environment in the city and that it was an illegal activity associated with crime and other …
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Role of Culture in Economic Development: China Study of China and Latin America
… this thesis is to prove that culture and the informal business networks of China are the major forces of what is driving the Chinese economy ahead of Latin America. I will explain how the definition of culture ties in with the economic society of both regions. In writing about culture, I will …
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The extent to which female informal traders participate in the local economic development (LED) programme at Umhlathuze local municipality, Kwazulu-Natal province
Employment in the informal sector is on the increase in various regions of the world. There are more women than men in the informal sector and there are several explanations for this basic fact. Among other factors is that the informal sector is the primary source of employment for women in many …
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Constraints to secure livelihoods in the informal sector: the case of informal enterprises in Delft South, Cape Town
… who work in developing cities, work in the informal sector. In South Africa's townships, many poor households rely on home-based informal economic activities as their primary source of livelihood. However, these livelihoods often face multiple constraints, and thus remain precarious. The …
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Women's experiences of street trading in Cape Town and its impact on their well-being
… forms a large subsection of South Africa's informal economic activity, creating opportunity for self-employment and sustaining livelihoods (Mitullah, 2003; Skinner, 2008). Yet, street traders face various barriers including societal marginalization and pervasive poverty, threatening their …
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Cecil Pinsent: architecture and landscape design
… The Architecture of Humanism, who had an informal business partnership with Pinsent between the years 1911 and 1918. Reading collections of Pinsent1s private correspondence between family members, friends, and clients, and conducting interviews with Pinsent1s relatives provided insights to …
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Exploring the factors that prevent home based to grow in South Africa
… income and employment to people in the informal sector of the economy is becoming increasingly recognised. This paper provides the primary data which consists of a non-random sample of 47 Spaza shop owners and managers in the four different areas (old establishments, new establishments, …
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Economic and socio cultural experiences of female entrepreneurs in Brazil and the United States: an exploratorial and empirical analysis.
… that in less developed countries necessity and informal entrepreneurship are more prevalent than opportunity entrepreneurship. An explanation from economic nature for this phenomenon is perhaps the fact that with less job opportunities available in developing nations, the need to become an …
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A study of information needs and uses of the informal sector of Uganda
… determine the information needs and uses of the informal sector in Uganda. For this purpose, it was necessary to review literature on the informal sector and to provide an overview of the information systems and services in the country. The demographic, business and cultural characteristics of …