Sökning: "Informal economy"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 69 avhandlingar innehållade orden Informal economy.

  1. 11. Small-Small : Moral Economy and the Marketspace in Northern Ghana

    Författare :Ulrik Jennische; Christina Garsten; Johan Lindquist; Sten Hagberg; Dinah Rajak; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ghana; small-scale trade; moral economy; informality; space and place; citizenship; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : Over the past decade, the Ghanaian government has tried to include and accommodate the many people working in the so-called informal economy. This formalization process is in line with a global market-driven development discourse. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Essays on Industrial Development and Political Economy of Africa

    Författare :Eyerusalem G. Siba; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agglomeration economies; African manufacturing; Credit constraints; Darfur; Ethiopia; Ethnic cleansing; Growth; Informal sector; New firms; Poverty trap; Prices; Productivity; Resource struggle; Returns to capital; Survival; Skills.;

    Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Returns to Capital and Informality. We study the pattern of returns to capital in the formal and informal manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia. We use a rich panel dataset of manufacturing firms in the formal sector for the period 1996-2006 and two rounds of repeated cross-sectional data of the urban informal sector firms. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Till studiet av relationer mellan familj, ekonomi och stat : Grekland och Sverige

    Författare :Lotta Coniavitis Gellerstedt; Anna-Karin Kollind; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Clientelism; elastic relations; European Union; family; Greece; informal economy; modernization; organizations; social landscape; Sweden; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : Within a loose framework of two ongoing and interrelated processes (globalisation and changing roles of the nation-state) family and relations between family, economy and state are studied in Greece and Sweden. Greece is in focus. Modernization, development and family in social science literature are discussed. LÄS MER

  5. 14. From formal employment to street vending: Women’s room to maneuver and labor market decisions under conditions of export-orientation – the case of Penang, Malaysia

    Författare :Anja K. Franck; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender and trade; feminization of labor; female labor force participation; women’s work; gender at work; informal economy; hawking; street vending; Penang; Malaysia;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a compilation thesis consisting of an introduction and four separate papers. It is an inquiry into women’s working lives in Penang, Malaysia. The export-oriented development model adopted in Malaysia stimulated women’s large-scale entry to the formal labor force. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Informal caregiving at old age. Content, coping, difficulties and satisfaction

    Författare :Anna Kristensson Ekwall; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Gerontology; Gerontologi; satisfaction; coping; gender; loneliness; Elderly; informal caregivers;

    Sammanfattning : Older people take a great share of caregiving responsibility already and thus understanding of their strain, coping and satis-faction is required. The aim was to investigate dimensions of caregiving activities among elderly (75+) caregivers and to study the dimensions in relation to health-related quality of life (Paper I). LÄS MER