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What determines firms' decisions to formalize? : evidence from rural Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil; Schulze, Günther G.; Voss, Janina - 2010
of them microenterprises, and analyze the effect of formalization on tax payments, corruption, access to credit and … revenue, taking into account the endogeneity of the formalization decision to such benefits and costs. We show, contrary to … most of the literature, that formalization reduces tax and corruption payments. The benefits of formalization, and …
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Traditional slavery institutions and democratization : insights into intercaste human capital disparities in Sumba Island's rural areas, Indonesia
Raya, Umbu Reku; Resosudarmo, Budy P. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-11
This study aims to bridge the gap in the existing literature by examining the impact of prevailing traditional slavery institutions and democratization processes on human capital development. In our pursuit, we conducted a residential survey in Sumba Island, Indonesia. Notably, despite...
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Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice
Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009
This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...
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The Development Elite and Institutions of the Local Poor : Experiences from a Development NGO in India
Kakani, Ram Kumar; Saha, Biswatosh - 2014
Theory and practice of development has long been concerned about the problem of poverty and the poor communities in developing countries, which often also has a spatial dimension with a large concentration in rural hinterlands. The nature of poverty in such discourses has generally been...
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The Idea of a Rural Informal Economy
Conroy, John D. - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of economic informality and its application in the rural context of developing and transitional economies, applying Keith Hart's (1987) notion of informality as a 'remedial concept'. Some remedy is needed to make sense of the many 'palpable...
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Labor mobility and technology diffusion : a new concept and its application to rural Southeast Asia
Hübler, Michael - 2015 - February 2015
We develop a new concept of rural technology diffusion influenced by labor mobility and business relations. The technology gain effect of labor mobility increases technology diffusiveness, whereas the technology drain effect decreases it. The concept is applied to survey data from the Mekong...
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Community supported agriculture in Romania : is it driven by economy or solidarity?
Bîrhalã, Brînduşa; Möllers, Judith - 2014
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Phänomen der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft, welche einen möglichen Ausweg aus der schwierigen Situation für Kleinbetriebe in Osteuropa bieten könnte. Der Schwerpunkt des Interesses liegt auf den Kosten und dem Nutzen für die Akteure - Landwirte und ihre...
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Looking for PeripheRurality
Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; … - 2013
Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426659
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Rural areas between locality and global networks : local development mechanisms and the role of policies empowering rural actors : BAE 10th anniversary paper
Mantino, Francesco - In: Bio-based and applied economics 10 (2021) 4, pp. 265-281
The main objective of this work is to review the recent achievements on the mechanisms explaining local and rural development, which underpin the current definition of rural areas in the European literature. The analysis carried out in this article acknowledges a gap between local development...
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Integrated web systems as strategic solutions for (successfully) branding the rural boarding houses
Dinu Vasiliu, Codrin <PhD>; Tanasă, Lucian; Brumă, … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 62-69). 2016
For the past 15 years, mostly in the context of raising the financing volume for the rural environment, the number of rural boarding houses has been expanding exponentially. This increase has failed yet to be correlated with efficient marketing solutions, the development itself happened rather...
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