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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Urban informal sector"”.
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Social insurance provision for women in the urban informal sector : interpreting the successful strategy of Working Women's Forum, India
… employed labor, and subsequent growth in informal labor. The second is an unprecedented decline in state welfare rhetoric and policy. These simultaneous trends have resulted in an increase in the proportion of workers that do not receive secure wages or social benefits from either the …
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The politics of the urban informal sector and dominant social institutions : a case study on the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Since the 1970's the economics of the urban informal sector (UIS) has received tremendous attention in development literature. Recently, scholars have delved into the politics within which this sector is embedded. With respect to the politics of its external relationship, conventional wisdom argued …
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Identifying the socio-economic impacts of the 2019-2020 refugee occupation and COVID-19 related restrictions on immigrant-owned businesses in the urban informal sector of Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
… - on African immigrant-owned businesses in the informal craft market of Greenmarket Square (GMS). This research explored this impact using a qualitative approach. Participants were selected using a non-probability purposive sampling approach to include both men and women immigrants from Africa …
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Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development In The Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-Salaam
This study on “Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development in the Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-salaam” has investigated the association between three interrelated variables, namely human capability development levels in …
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Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development In The Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-Salaam
This study on “Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development in the Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-salaam” has investigated the association between three interrelated variables, namely human capability development levels in …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance and Households Consumption, Production and Investment Decision: Evidence from Bangladesh
… allocates its members to rural agricultural, urban formal or urban informal sectors to maximize the expected utility of the household. The rural agricultural and the urban informal sector incomes are assumed to be stochastic and potentially correlated. Families send members to the urban …
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A Gendered Analysis of Formal Vocational Education, Skills Development, and Self-employment in Accra, Ghana: Exploring enterprise development and outcomes of women’s self-employment in the feminized trades
… leads to sustainable self-employment in the urban informal sector (UIS) in Accra. The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach using interpretive analysis to gain an in-depth understanding of the primary data collected. A case study approach is adopted to articulate emerging …
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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 …