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Improving young women's working conditions in Tanzania's urban food vending sector
Mhando, Nandera Ernest; Mramba, Nasibu Rajabu - 2021
sector in Tanzania using interviews and focus group discussions which are supplemented with quantitative survey. Data were … collected in the municipalities of Nyamagana and Ilemela in Mwanza Region, Northern Tanzania, and from officers working with the … government and insurance fund organizations in Dodoma region, central Tanzania, from August to September 2020. The results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705355
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Towards sustainable livelihoods in the Tanzanian informal economy: Facilitating inclusion, organization, and rights for street vendors
Steiler, Ilona; Nyirenda, Chediel - 2021
In spite of having some intensive national strategies to address poverty, Tanzania lacks a coherent national strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651124
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How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?
Demenet, Axel; Hoang, Quynh - 2018
Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943876
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Dar es Salaam as a 'harbour of peace' in East Africa: Tracing the role of creolized urban ethnicity in nation-state formation
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2010
in Tanzania's capital city, focusing on its ethnic foundations and their malleability with regard to nationalism, asking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280075
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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014
the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging new mineralizing Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343199
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Populist strategies in African democracies
Resnick, Danielle - 2010
Drawing on insights from Latin America, this paper examines the factors that contributed to the use of populist strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper argues that the nature of party competition in Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280234
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Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Ringdal, Charlotte; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem - 2017
Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power between spouses. The paper provides two main insights. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943731
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Pecuniary returns to working conditions in Viet Nam
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018
Using matched worker-firm data from three waves of the Viet Nam Small and Medium Enterprises data, we examine whether workers are compensated with higher wages for working in vulnerable jobs and unfavourable working conditions. Wage equations indicate that there are no clear compensating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943879
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How good are manufacturing jobs in Myanmar? Evidence from matched employer-employee data
Falco, Paolo; Gioia, Francesca; Trifkovic, Neda - 2021
The quality of people's jobs is a fundamental determinant of their well-being, and judging the state of a labour market on the basis of job quantity alone delivers a very partial picture. This study is an attempt to place the spotlight on the working conditions of workers in the Myanmar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651161
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Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector
Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Silver, Jed - 2017
Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This … paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It … and the tourism sector in contributing further to Tanzania's growth and structural change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654009