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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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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 to ensure sustainable livelihoods for those working in its informal economy, of which street vending is an important sector. Based on qualitative, in-depth data collected through...

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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...

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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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Socialism without liberation : land reclamation projects in Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - 1988

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

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Integrated web systems as strategic solutions for (successfully) branding the rural boarding houses

Vasiliu, Codrin Dinu; Tanasă, Lucian; Brumă, Ion Sebastian - 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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Rural employment in Russia : present conditions and prospects for agricultural and non-agricultural sectors

Nikulina, Yulia N. - In: Russian journal of economics 9 (2023) 4, pp. 351-370

Contributing to a discussion on rural employment forecast in Russia, this paper systematizes the challenges for the rural labor market: population outflow, weak impulses to develop non-agricultural employment and rural entrepreneurship, changing labor needs in agriculture and a decline in the...

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