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Micro-enterprises in a developing economy- challenges and sustainability

Dalglish, Carol L.; Bradley, Rebecca L. - 2006

Small and micro-enterprises play a significant part in most economies, whether developed or developing. However, in … developing countries these enterprises have tended to be looked at from a development, or poverty alleviation perspective, rather …, who received micro-financing to establish or grow their micro-enterprises and to examine these enterprises in terms of …

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From the Informal to the Formal Sector: Micro-enterprises in a Developing Economy – Research in Progress

Dalglish, Carol L. - 2007

Small and micro-enterprises play a significant part in most economies.However, in developing countries these … enterprises have tended to be looked at from a development, or poverty alleviation perspective, rather than as potentially growing … businesses. This paper explores the possibility of micro-enterprises in developing economies moving from the informal to the …

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Designing Market Based Instruments: Beyond Round One of the Australian MBI Pilot Program

Lansdell, Nicola; Stoneham, Gary - 2006

Most markets have evolved as buyers and sellers constantly search for ways to create value, however this has not occurred naturally in all areas of the economy markets are missing for some goods, including the environment. In such cases, transaction costs linked to property rights, asymmetric...

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Contracts, Transaction Costs and Agricultural Production in the Pampas

Lema, Daniel - 2006

This paper presents an analysis of agricultural contracts using a transaction costs approach. We contend that in a context of modern agriculture, with well defined property rights, agricultural contracts must balance costs and benefits, aligning tenant and landlord incentives towards a similar...

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Common Property: What Is It, What Is It Good For, and What Makes It Work?

McKean, Margaret A. - 1995

"This paper is one of a series of analyses that represent the first wave of work being performed by IFRI's collaborators. Each author draws upon the training and instrument of the IFRI program to address their particular research questions. Given the early stage of IFRI's implementation, the...

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Managing Exploitation Rights in the Inshore Marine Fisheries of Sierra Leone

Turay, Foday - 1995

"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as...

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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology

Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995

"Laboratory experiments have generally supported the fundamental theorem that, in classical property rights environments, noncooperative behavior in large group markets yields efficient social outcomes. Experiments, however, regularly fail to support the game theoretic prediction of...

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Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces

Engel, Stefanie; Lopez, Ramon - 2004

"Many natural resources can be effectively exploited mainly by using capital-intensive technologies. We develop a bargaining model with endogenous inside and outside options to analyze the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural...

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Capturing Fugitive Resources in a Globalized Economy: The Case of Marine Aquaculture in Hawai`i

Suryanata, Krisna; Umemoto, Karen - 2001

industry. The challenge is to strike the delicate balance between favoring local enterprises rooted in cultural traditions …

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Who, What, When, Why: Resource Economics Before the Fall

Wiener, Jonathan B. - 1998

From Page 1:"First, please note that this is a very informal version of an essay called 'Property, Agency, Time, Culture, Spirit', to be published in a UNEP book on 'Human Values and Biodiversity', edited by Darrell Posey, due out in 1998."This paper is called 'What, Who, When, Why...' because...

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