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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Informal economy"”.
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
… relationships between institutions (formal and informal), entrepreneurial outcomes (productive and unproductive), and shadow economy size at the U.S. state-level. Chapter 1 opens with some discussion of the topics explored here and provides an overview of important results from each of the …
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Alternative contracting for informal economy financing
The informal economy in South Africa is a source of considerable debate. Academics and practitioners struggle to define, characterize, measure and place the informal economy in South Africa's macroeconomic picture. Despite the polemic, it is generally agreed that the informal economy is important. …
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The Nigerian informal economy: a regional analysis
… economists, there is ample evidence that the informal economy has expanded globally (Schneider et al., 2010). This, in addition to finding out the potential of the informal economy, has sparked renewed interest amongst researchers. Until now, however, most of the ‘empirical’ studies have …
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Challenges facing informal economy social security in Namibia
… the provision of social security benefits to the informal economy can be overcome. The study differs from other studies, g1ven that it aimed to unearth the financing constraints that may be faced by sse in the provision of social protection or security to the informal sector in Namibia and suggest …
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The Informal Economy in Lebanon: Dangers and Benefits
… and detrimental characteristics of the informal economy in Lebanon and its impact on the public and state interest through its socio-economic associations. The informal economy is a polymorphous entity, and in order to determine its versatile contribution, has been separated into four …
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Entrepreneurship in the informal economy: evidence from informal institutional environments
The informal economy remains understudied and a misunderstood phenomenon. This dissertation examines entrepreneurship in the informal economy by drawing upon a variety of theories in management research to examine antecedents that may explain and predict the entrepreneur’s likelihood of …
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Empirical Analysis of Disguised Relationships between Formal Economy Firms and Informal Economy Enterprises
Scholarly interest in the informal economy has burgeoned in recent years, in anticipation of expanding our knowledge beyond the easily observable organizational life that takes place within the formal economic system. In line with this research endeavour, the present work represents a focused study …
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Hustle Revolution: Participation of young graduates in the informal economy of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
… of young graduates who participate in the informal economy of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. This study aimed to answer the question of whether formal education gives young graduates competing in the informal economy a competitive advantage or disadvantage. This was done through in-depth interviews, …
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Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
… filial kinship. Labour platforms too encounter informality in the process of creating platform services that stand apart from informal services and jobs. The design and governance choices on workers can reveal if there is a change – reinstituonalization or alteration – of informality by …
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The Evolution of the Informal Economy and its Implications for Tax Policy in Zambia
… of taxation into Zambia‟s largest employer- the informal economy- the contributions of these taxes to domestic revenues have been insignificant since their inception in 2004. This poor performance has led civil society organisations and even Government to call for more taxation of informality …
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The Evolution of the Informal Economy and its Implications for Tax Policy in Zambia
… of taxation into Zambia‟s largest employer- the informal economy- the contributions of these taxes to domestic revenues have been insignificant since their inception in 2004. This poor performance has led civil society organisations and even Government to call for more taxation of informality …
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Survival strategies among informal economy businesses: the case of small maize millers in Zambia
This study explores whether the informal sector survives in a competitive environment. It focuses on informal maize millers in an industry dominated by large-scale milling firms. The study was guided by a mixed methodology for data collection and analysis. This entailed the use of a case study …
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Resilience and risk in the informal economy: a study in the regulation of flooding
… living and operating businesses in flood prone informal settlement areas are amongst the most vulnerable groups of society to climate change and associated risks. The state is unable to provide key goods and services in many of these areas of limited statehood. How these business owners respond …
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Modalities of regulation In the informal economy: a study of waste collectors in Cape Town
… and collective organising capacity of these informal sector workers, and their relationships with other actors. Although, these studies provide a useful resource for understanding the nature of their work and the contexts in which it emerges, very little is known about how their work is …
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Maids and mistresses in Recife (Brazil): An analysis of linkages between the formal and informal economy
… labor market, mostly in the formal sector of the economy.
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Resilience and sustainability in the informal economy: an exploration of Cape Town's informal food traders amidst disruption
The role of informal food traders in responding to the needs of local communities is crucial to achieving SDG 2: Zero Hunger. Different frameworks, developed by the Global North, have sprung up around the Sustainable Development Goals (a replacement of the Millennial Goals) to measure progress …
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The role of socially contextual mobile technologies in enabling the digital inclusion of female informal economy traders in Africa
… conducted regarding the digital inclusion of informal economy traders, however, there has been less scholarly work detailing the lived experiences of informal economy traders, alongside the lived experiences of technology startups building solutions for the informal economy. This research …
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Lived experiences of Zimbabwean labour migrants in the informal economy in Urban Cape Town during the COVID-19 pandemic
… experiences of Zimbabwean labour migrants in the informal economy in urban Cape Town during the COVID-19 pandemic (hereafter referred to as COVID-19). The study was undertaken in Cape Town, South Africa. The major issues investigated included the lived experiences of Zimbabwean labour migrants in …
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Linking inclusive green growth and the informal economy : relationship between small-scale farming and informal vending in South Africa
… to envision a model of an inclusive green economy without some overlapping elements with the informal economy, which supports about two-thirds of the world's labor. And yet, there has been sparse discussion and empirical evidence on the linkages between the two. In order to investigate some …
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