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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"informal trade"”.
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The formalisation of informal trade in Cape Town : a case study of Greenmarket Square
… and policies set by the City have formalised informal trade at Greenmarket Square. The sample included 14 informal traders from Greenmarket Square, a former "illegal" trader, three formal business owners and three City of Cape Town officials. Semi-structured interviews and the creation and …
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ILLICIT ECONOMICS AND TERRORISM: THE ROLE OF INFORMAL TRADE AND SMUGGLING IN FINANCING TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IN NORTHEAST NIGERIA
… absence, but by structural reliance on cash and informal financial practices, especially in rural and conflict affected areas where exclusion is deepest and insurgent influence is strongest. Drawing on comparative analysis of mobile money adoption and informal value transfer enforcement in …
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Planning for urban food security: leveraging the contribution of informal trade in the case of Bellville Station precinct
… the invisibility of the contribution that informal trade makes to urban food security through supporting access to food. Through the case study of the Bellville Station Precinct in Cape Town, I argue that informal food traders are playing a crucial role in supporting urban food security …
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The role of informal trade markets in household food security and nutrition in Cape Town s food systems value chain
… to affordable nutritional foods, especially informal fresh produce markets (IFPMs) (AFSUN, 2008-9). Thus, informal fresh produce markets in particular are elements of food systems that warrant closer attention for legislators, policy-makers, and spatial development planners. This research has …
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Cross border trade as a survival strategy in SADC : a study of Zimbabwean women traders
… national policies and more broadly SADC affect informal trade and informal traders. Whilst SADC governments claim a desire to fight poverty, the organisation at the same time is pursuing policies that are obstructive to poverty alleviation. This is, for example, reflected in its lack of …
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The effect of the East African community integration process on informal cross-border trade (ICBT) : an analysis of the Customs Union Protocol
Informal cross border trade (ICBT) includes imports and exports that are traded across borders informally by escaping the normal border procedures like customs clearance. As a consequence of the said informality, ICBT is viewed as illegal cross border activities. Despite the fact that it is not …
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Medicinal plant sales : a case study in Northern Zululand
… are a constituent of a traditional culture. The informal trade in indigenous plants for medicinal use (umuthi) is growing constantly (Mander, 1998). There are many reasons for this, including an expanding population coupled with modernisation of society that is hastened by the development of …
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Enduring intersectional precarity: A history of resistance by women informal traders in Harare (Zimbabwe), c. 1965 to 2022
… of State support; punitive regulation of the informal sector and a pandemic. While informality is not a new phenomenon in Zimbabwe, its expansion post-economic liberalisation has significantly involved an enduring presence of women. This study focuses on the resilience of women in the informal …
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Understanding the Contemporary Character of Braamfontein Johannesburg: Towards a renewed understanding of urban renewal in cities in the South
… or gentrification; how attempts to suppress informal trade have led to the proliferation of iterant strategies on the part of hawkers, and have in turn led to enhanced relationships between informal traders and the formal economy; and, finally, how the presence of communities self-identifying …
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The missing middle : nascent potential in South Africa's commercial environment
… terms are referred to as the formal and informal economies. Architecture: I was interested in the fact that this disparity was reflected in the types of retail buildings seen in South Africa - the fact that there are a large number of big-box type shopping centres and a large number of …
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The impact of public spending on education in Nigeria
… the fee-paying secondary schools and interest in informal trade. These findings add nuance to the understanding of the variables affecting education enrolment rates in Nigeria beyond that of government spending, to other variables which are critical to the structure of the economy given its high …
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Market imperfections and the effectiveness of subcontracting and informal institutions in export market transactions in Ghana
… in the absence of effective state institutions, informal and private institutional arrangements tend to govern market transactions. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these arrangements in supporting distant and expanding trade transactions, especially, in Africa. Using the …
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Introducing a pro-vitamin a rich staple crop: analysis of decision making along the orange fleshed sweetpotato value chain in Uganda
… for sale, ii) assesses the factors influencing trader decisions to sell OFSP, iii) analyses factors determining acceptability and repeat purchase of OFSP by consumers, and iv) evaluates the role of marketing in a biofortification intervention. The thesis identifies both generic and specific …
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Space, place and belonging: informal trading in and around Congolenses market, Luanda, Angola
… explores the interplay between government, informal street traders and the public in and around the Congolenses marketplace in Luanda, Angola. The nation was ravaged by 27 years of civil war until 2002. During this time, most of the city made use of extensive systems of informal provisioning …
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Putting Food onto the Urban Agenda: How the City of Cape Town can increase access to sustainable and healthy diets through urban food governance
… regulating the private sector and supporting informal trade, encouraging sustainable local small-scale production of healthy food and the establishment of food gardens, expanding the local market structure, as well as through providing nutrition education. This research finds that despite the …
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Governance, informality and agency in the making of cross-border mopane worm livelihoods in Southern Africa
… increasingly, part of a lucrative cross-border trade in southern Africa. Across Botswana and South Africa, the statutory regulation of these resources is overlaid upon customary forms of governance that continue to regulate resource access and use. The effectiveness of such interactions is …
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Urban Planning principles as mechanisms for improving informal trading opportunities: A case study of inner-city Johannesburg
… city of Johannesburg presents a high number of informal traders who seek to make use of urban public space in their livelihood strategies. However, the forces driving the performance of informal traders have not led to positive development of opportunities for traders. Operation Clean Sweep in …
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Healed. Womxn. Empowered.: creating healing spaces for women in places of conflict in Nyanga
… will inform the project and; majority-female informal trade taking place, the day clinic, the vegetable garden, and the under-utilized private land; to properly understand how these could be strategically integrated to create healing spaces for everyday use.
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Kleinhandel unter schwierigen institutionellen Voraussetzungen – Reaktionen, Strategien und Lösungen der Händler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia
Small-scale trade in Africa and the associated aspects are a much debated topic for many years. The central challenges are for the most part described on the basis of a shortage of capital, network analyses, crisis management strategies, adverse framework conditions and the characteristics of …
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Benefit sharing and environmental sustainability in policy and practice: the commercialisation of the resurrection bush (Myrothamnus flabellifolius) in Southern Africa
The trade of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), also known as biotrade, has existed for hundreds of years - as has the traditional knowledge associated with such products. More recently, this form of trade has advanced to include genetic resource components found within natural resources …
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