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User costs and informal payments for care in the largest maternity hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Maternity care costs in Nepal include formal and informal payment. Formal include for example the cost for blood or drugs; Informal payments can be voluntary such as gratitude payments, or bribes which patients are ‘expected’ to pay to get ...
Sharma, Gaurav, Simkhada, Bihha, Simkhada, Padam, Townend, John, van Teijlingen, Edwin   +4 more
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Mapping Informal Settlements in Developing Countries using Machine Learning and Low Resolution Multi-spectral Data

, 2019
Informal settlements are home to the most socially and economically vulnerable people on the planet. In order to deliver effective economic and social aid, non-government organizations (NGOs), such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), require ...
Azam, Faiza, Bilinski, Piotr, Coca-Castro, Alejandro, Gram-Hansen, Bradley, Helber, Patrick, Kopackova, Veronika, Varatharajan, Indhu   +6 more
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Ukrainian Undeclared Work Survey: First Findings

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Економічні науки, 2018
This paper presents the first findings of the Ukrainian Undeclared Work Survey (UUDWS) that was conducted in the end of 2017. UUDWS is a direct method that aims to estimate the size and the nature of the undeclared work in Ukraine.
Oksana Nezhyvenko
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Notice of Books Received

Informal Logic, 2023
Informal Logic
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The Four Types of Stablecoins: A Comparative Analysis

Ledger
Stablecoins have gained significant popularity recently, with their market cap rising to over $180 billion. However, recent events have raised concerns about their stability.
Matthias Hafner, Marco Henriques Pereira, Helmut Dietl, Juan Beccuti   +3 more
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To See Invisible Rights: Quantifying Araman informal tenure and its immediate relationship with Social Forestry in Central Java, Indonesia

Forest and Society, 2019
The process of formalizing traditional, unwritten tenure systems is no simple task. Inaccurate or incomplete representation of the informal system may create more problems for the local communities.
Alex Cummins, Eiji Yamaji
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¿Debería la atención al usuario ser prestada por IA o por personas? Reflexiones sobre la calidad del servicio público y privado en tiempos de inteligencia artificial

Saber Servir
Esta reseña analiza el libro Servicio en tiempos de inteligencia artificial de Gabriel Vallejo (2025), que examina cómo la inteligencia artificial (IA) está transformando la calidad del servicio en sectores clave de la economía.
Pablo Willians Flores Salas
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Informal Housing, Inadequate Property Rights: Understanding the Needs of India's Informal Housing Dwellers [PDF]

, 2016
In India, as in many other developing countries, urban population growth and the shortage of planned affordable housing have led to 26–37 million households (33–47 percent of the urban population) living in informal housing (slums and unauthorised ...
Ashish Karamchandani, Subhash Chennuri, Vikram Jain   +2 more
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What lies beneath? The role of informal and hidden networks in the management of crises [PDF]

, 2014
Crisis management research traditionally focuses on the role of formal communication networks in the escalation and management of organisational crises. Here, we consider instead informal and unobservable networks.
Ackroyd S., Argyris C., Boisot M., Bruijn H., Castle S., Collingridge D., Collingridge D., Francis R., Huxham C., Kauffman S. A., Keogh B., Kickert W. J. M., Leake J., Linchfield J., Meikle J., Meikle J., Perrow C., Powell W. W., Reason J. T., Royal Society, Royal Society, Seidl D., Smith D., Templeton S.‐K., Turner B. A., Weick K. E., Weick K. E., Williams R.   +27 more
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Data Are Power: Addressing the Power Imbalance Around Community Data with the Open-Access Data4HumanRights Curriculum

Societies
Data4HumanRights’ training materials have been developed as open-source and tailored to limited-resource settings, where community data collectors often live and work.
Monika Kuffer, Dana R. Thomson, Dianne Wakonyo, Nicera Wanjiru Kimani, Divyani Kohli-Poll Jonker, Enyo Okoko, Rasak Toheeb, Bisola Akinmuyiwa, Mohammed Zanna, Dezyno Imole, Andrew Maki   +10 more
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