Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Informal market"”.
-
Multidimensional Strategies of Boundary-drawing towards Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Informal Market Economy
… forms towards Syrians refugees in Turkey’s informal market economy. Employing the case of Turkey as a new immigration country, the thesis provides a multidimensional analysis of boundary-drawing in relation to refugees. This study reveals how distinct framing strategies are employed towards …
-
An analysis of consumer preferences of meat in townships
… behavioural aspects of meat consumers in the informal market so that the right products can be presented at the right time in the right place at the right price with the right service. This process in return enhances customer satisfaction and brand loyalty which will lead to increased loyalty, …
-
Ghanaians in the Bronx: (il) Legal Status and Pathways to Housing
… access housing, and to uncover the hidden, informal sub-markets that they occupy. Data were collected over a 14-month period of fieldwork, through 2014 and 2015, using a mixed methods approach. Quantitative data were drawn from secondary datasets and qualitative data were obtained from …
-
City growth and community-owned land in Mexico City
… expansion, Mexico City, ejidos, Article 27, informal market, regularization, clientelism.
-
Migração interestadual de retorno e inserção no mercado de trabalho: evidências para o Nordeste do Brasil
… to investigate the integration into the labor market of interstate migrants returned to northeastern Brazil. In particular, we tried to estimate the effect of immigration status on the likelihood of self-employment, comparing not returned migrants, return migrants and non-migrants. We used data …
-
Revisiting cooperation dynamics: implications for opportunism and value creation when firms compete and cooperate simultaneously.
… coopetition dynamics. I identify and test informal market-based safeguards which reduce opportunism in coopetition. This provides theoretical resolution for conflicting findings in the literature and develops a nuanced understanding of the factors affecting opportunism in coopetition at …
-
A Case Study to Determine if Micro-Unit Developments Create Another Step Along the Housing Ladder for Low-Income Homeowners in Soweto
… they earn too little to enter the formal market. These residents, therefore, turn to the informal market, where they obtain housing in informal settlements or housing in backyards. A new housing development trend is emerging in the form of backyard micro-unit developments. This research …
-
Strategizing for housing : an investigation of the production and regulation of low-income housing in the suburgs of Beirut
… importance of learning from rather than about informal settlements. To serve this end, this dissertation presents a novel methodology for investigating land and housing markets. The methodology consists of investigating time-evolving relationships between attributes of the social agents who …
-
Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… post-colonial Namibia, the concept of informality is widely applied with reference to the ‘informal economy’ and ‘informal settlements’, which are rapidly overtaking formal urbanisation processes inherited from colonial times. All the while, conventional professional spatial practices …
-
Digital boundaries: A study into how mobile devices and information + communication technologies can influence the social programming, spatial conditions and construction of public architecture
… infrastructure to this complex precinct in the informal area of Cape Town through three scales of architecture; small, medium and large. The small scale is that of Wi-Fi hotspots at street level embedded within the informal market at ten strategically located sites. The medium scale …
-
Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
… various social spheres. As a mix of disparate informal market place, it is interwoven with the broader formal economy by acting as a transmitter of consumer goods sourced from formal businesses. The paper concludes with an assertion that from a sociological point of view, treating social spaces …
-
Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente
… however, have remained in the greyest of grey market zones. Federal anti-drug laws and supply-side tactics have intensively targeted them even as marijuana has become more licit. In this legally unstable environment, marijuana patient-cultivators and underground producers have articulated and …
-
China-Africa Relations: The Northern Nigerian Textile Industry
… investments in terms of direct access to each market sector of the African economy, and it impacts on local businesses. The study examines the impacts of China’s approach on the textile industry in Kano and Kaduna states in northern Nigeria, to provide an insight into China’s endgame in Africa. …
-
Assembling Economic Citizenship: Indigenous Women’s Work in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… widely, has centred on highland women’s work as (informal) market venders and traders, while lowland indigenous women as economic subjects have been largely invisibilised. Through a qualitative case study with Guaraní and other low-income women in peri-urban Santa Cruz de la Sierra, this thesis …
-
Testing the appetite of potential players in the housing microfinance field to develop niche loans for backyard shack formalization
… South Africans (Sisulu, 2005); however the informal market has responded to the housing need. The rate at which new households create informal housing now exceeds the rate of government housing - and infrastructure provision (Durand-Lasserve et al, 2002). Backyard shacks in formalized areas …
-
From fork to farm: understanding Kitwe's food system through the fish lens
… bought their food from both formal and informal markets but were more highly dependent on the informal markets. The factors that drove their purchasing decisions included income, proximity and volumes of fish sold. Secondly, the study also found that informal traders bought their fish …
-
MAIDAKUTIBVISA - Developing networks of permanence and impermanence within Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, through the preservation and adaptation of informal infrastructure.
… issue of dilapidated infrastructure within the informal trading network of Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe and the informal markets that exist there. This issue of dilapidated and inad - equate infrastructure comes as a hindrance to the struc - tures and spaces that vendors occupy and rely on to make a …
-
Marketing indigeneity: identity negotiations of two generations of informal vending women in neoliberal Bolivia
… work is an ethnographic study about a group of informal market women who have crafted an alternative merchant middle class in Bolivia’s cities and who are called cholas; a term denoting a person of mixed indigenous and European descent. In a society where upward social mobility was barred to the …
-
African trade unions : - labour ideology - industrial and commercial workers' union of Africa
… difficulty of surviving; the growth of intensive informal market networks is perhaps one of the most significant indicators about the attitude of ·victim people to their kind of existence. I have not been able to pursue the structure of this sub-market in this thesis. It is sufficient to note its …
-
Three essays on the economics of water management in agriculture
… ratios and search frictions in a groundwater market with spatial externalities. Econometric results suggest that the use of trading ratios can indeed provide incentives for market participants to reallocate resources in a way that reduces spatial externalities. In the localized informal market …
Page 1 of 2