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Metodologia - O Sector Informal em Moçambique: Resultados do Primeiro Inquérito Nacional (2005)
Calzaroni, Manlio; Cappiello, Antonio; Della Rocca, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837422
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Regulation, governance and informality: an empirical analysis of selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
primary cause that impedes the process of formalization. However whether flexible regulations can encourage formalization by … making gains of formalization more accessible and certain remains a question. In this paper we argue that flexible … regulations does not necessarily manifest into the incentives that are essential for formalization. Reducing rigidities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323213
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259043
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Assessing environmental management in agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401346
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: focus on western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401358
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The impact of credit on income poverty in urban Mexico. An endogeneity-corrected estimation
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In recent years, an important number of impact studies have attempted to examine the effect of credit on income poverty; however, many of these studies have not paid sufficient attention to the problems of endogeneity and selection bias. The few exceptional cases have employed econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835401
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Spatial Concentration of the Informal Small and Cottage Industry in Indonesia
Aloysius Gunadi, Brata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses the spatial concentration of the small and cottage industry without legal entity in Indonesia. The study period is 1998-2004 or a period after economic crisis which commonly known as the ‘era reformasi’ (reformation era). By employing the Herfindahl index, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836549
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Water use options for regional development. Potentials of new water technologies in Central Northern Namibia
Lux, Alexandra; Janowicz, Cedric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The CuveWaters project relates the alignment and implementation of innovative water technologies to an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Cuvelai-Etosha-Basin, which lies in Central Northern Namibia. The aim here is to improve inhabitants’ living conditions by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528722
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Wider impacts of microcredit: evidence from labor and human capital in urban Mexico
Nino-Zarazua, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents an estimation of the impacts of microcredit on labor and human capital following a quasi-experiment specifically designed to control for endogeneity and selection bias in the context of urban Mexico. We find important indirect trickle-down effects of credit through labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616774
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Grameen Bank II: una Possibile analisi in prospettiva relazionale
Reggiani, Tommaso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
After 25 years of effective work against the poverty, "the bank of poors", founded by Muhammd Yunus, has undertaken a new action to the innovation of the practical of microcredit, therefore to render it relationally still fecund and - I think - valuing. In this written, we will pass in review...
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