Search Results - subject:"urban informal sector"

Women domestic workers in urban informal sector : a case study of Vadodara city

Agrawal, Sarita - In: Manpower journal 57 (2023) 1/2, pp. 1-31

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Strategy for financial inclusion of informal economy workers

Sharma, Seema; Bose, Arnab; Shekhar, Himanshu; … - 2019

Access to finance and financial inclusion has been identified as a key enabler in the modern society. It provides for basic economic security of the family and is instrumental in preventing families from falling back into poverty. The jan-dhan account in India has been a key milestone in this...

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Strategy for financial inclusion of informal economy workers

Sharma, Seema; Bose, Arnab; Shekhar, Himanshu; … - 2019

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How does relationship-based governance accommodate new entrants? Evidence from the cycle rickshaw rental market

Jain, Tarun; Sood, Ashima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that the salience of network-based ties in contract enforcement under relation-based governance systems limits market expansion. This paper illustrates the incorporation of new agents into market exchange under conditions of informal contract...

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Burkina Faso; Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development 2011â€“2015

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This paper focuses on the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development (SCADD) for Burkina Faso. It provides an overview of a decade of development, takes stock of the recent performance of Burkina Faso in various areas, and identifies the main challenges. The paper spells out a...

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Economic reform, informal-formal sector linkages and intervention in the informal sector in developing countries: A paradox

Arvin-Rad, Hassan; Basu, Arnab K.; Willumsen, Maria - 2010

Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is procyclical/ complementary - expansion or contraction in one necessarily implies an expansion or contraction in the...

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Food Security, Gender and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

Floro, Maria; Swain, Ranjula Bali - 2010

Rising urban poverty and food insecurity are serious concerns in developing countries today. Urban livelihoods and coping strategies remain poorly understood however. This paper examines the response of female and male household members in marginalized urban (predominantly squatter) areas to the...

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Employment, Wages and Poverty in the Organized and the Unorganized Segments of the Non-Agricultural Sector in India; All-India, 2000-2005

Sundaram, K. - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2008

country as a whole as also those in urban India who constitute the Urban Informal Sector. An analysis of labour productivity … constitute the Urban Informal Sector. An analysis of labour productivity in the organized-unorganized segments of broad … words: Employment in organized sector, Urban Informal Sector, Labour Productivity, Wage Differentials, Poverty status of …

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Analyzing Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in CGE Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments in Agricultural and Non-agricultural Sectors in South Asia

Khan, haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The paper uses a dualistic, compact and “generic” (macroeconomic) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model specially constructed for the purpose of investigating the implications of trade liberalization for poverty reduction in South Asia. The model is a stylized representation of...

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Immiserising growth and mobility of capital with and without land in Harris-Todaro model

Inoue, Tadashi - In: Global Business and Economics Review 15 (2013) 1, pp. 110-127

Under various frameworks of Harris-Todaro two sector models, the effects of the change in capital, population and land on outputs, employment of labour, employment ratio of urban sector and welfare are examined. The possibility of immiserising growth is seen to give rise with tariff ridden...

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