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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"informal markets"”.
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"It's people you know": the role social networks play in micro-informal markets
Informal markets are prevalent all over the globe. The work done in such markets is often for the purposes of supplementary or subsistence income and it is done by men, women, and children. The purpose of my research was to understand how micro-informal markets are created by informal workers in …
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An investigation of the components that influence the purchase decision of Congolese millennials in the Democratic Republic of Congo informal clothing market
Informal markets for fashion are a growing phenomenon around the world and more specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In different cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are tents housing vendors who sell second-hand clothes. These markets are becoming the millennials' …
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Cape Town's urban food security plan : a conceptual framework for achieving an accessible and healthy urban food system
… through the city differently between formal and informal markets and that informal markets tend to have higher unit prices. Regardless of the higher prices of products from informal markets they were still found to be key food sourcing strategy for the urban poor as supermarkets were found to be, …
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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 …
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Made in Hong Kong : re-envisioning the pedestrian interface
… society: Hong Kong. The hustle and bustle of informal markets, together with the traditional pedestrian streets that ow from the mountains down to the waterfront are typical examples of such open spaces. However, these multifunctional spaces are being eliminated now, with the domination of …
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The Integrated Development Plan as a strategy to employer informal traders: the case of Thohoyandou
… Development Plan as a strategy to empower informal traders using Thohoyandou as the case study. The study was conducted at Thulamela Municipality and at the informal markets of Thohoyandou. The researcher used two population groups; the municipal officials and the informal traders. The …
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A matter of understanding : urban design strategies to integrate street vendors in Mumbai
Resistance to informal markets appears related to a growing desire to modernize among citizens of developing countries. These markets, in their indigenous, often chaotic, form, are viewed as symbols as poverty and backwardness.Their appearance is increasingly becoming undesirable to citizens …
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Resilience of small-scale farmers amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: a case study of small-scale farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa
… selection was based on their access to various markets: municipal markets, local informal markets, or alternative channels facilitated by intermediaries. The research underscores a pronounced correlation between market access and resilience. Farmers with market access demonstrated greater …
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Linking inclusive green growth and the informal economy : relationship between small-scale farming and informal vending in South Africa
… 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 aspects of this relationship and test the …
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Three Essays on Groundwater and Tenancy Contracts in Rural Economies
… in hand deals with the phenomenon of informal markets for water and land in the agricultural sector of developing countries with a special emphasis on India. In the first part, I present data from a field study on informal groundwater markets conducted by myself in Tamil Nadu, India …
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The role of African leafy vegetables in food security
… critical differences exist between formal and informal sectors. Women play a stronger role in informal sectors, but the balance between the formal and informal markets is changing, and this may jeopardize the incomes of many women. The determinants of household security were different for male- …
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The Impact of Interpersonal Relationships and Incentive Structures on the Performance of Actors in Informal Supply Chains
… challenges faced by intermediaries in informal supply chains, in which the relational and structural constraints present in traditional supply chains are relaxed. This research is organized into three papers, the first of which (Chapter 2) explores business relationships in the context …
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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 …
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Conflict, Violence, and Abuja Markets: A Spatial Analysis of Impact
… in open space. This includes farms, forests, and informal markets. This is where the typology of the informal market becomes a centrality of the study. At an estimated average put at 57.7% of the nation’s GDP, Nigeria has the third largest informal economy in the world coming behind Zimbabwe and …
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Exploring the formal and informal distribution mechanisms for Colombian documentary films
… embodies the contradictions between formal and informal economies as well as between legitimate and illegitimate ways to obtain access to films and other media.Considering this situation, the main concern of this research is to review and analyse the different mechanisms that have been used to …
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Exploring alternatives for milk quality improvement and more efficient dairy production in a smallholder farming context – case study: Mantaro Valley (Peru)
… stakeholders, mainly small-holders, into dairy markets. The present study is focused on an analysis of the interaction of the upstream part of the dairy supply chain (farmers and dairies) in the Mantaro Valley (Peruvian central Andes), in order to understand possible constraints both …
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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 …