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ANALISIS PENAWARAN TENAGA KERJA WANITA PADA SEKTOR INFORMAL DI KOTA JAMBI

open access: yesEconomica, 2017
he study, entitled the analysis of labor supply of women in the informal sector in the city of Jambi. Jambi province's economic growth in the year 2009 - 2014 has an upward trend and the highest ever in the Sumatran for economic growth.
iqra wiarta
doaj   +1 more source

Motorized three-wheelers and their potential for just mobility in Caribbean urban areas

open access: yesData & Policy
This paper investigates the role of motorized three-wheelers (MTW) in urban mobility within popular transport, a demand-responsive and unscheduled mode of transportation provided by self-organized small operators frequently operating in grey areas of ...
Mariajosé Nieto-Combariza   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dual Formal and Informal Transport Modes towards Quasi-Seamless Transit in a Developing City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability, 2018
Dual formal and informal transport modes have been complementing one another in Bandung City for more than four decades now. The issue appears due to inability of formal transport to provide adequate services to the citizens.
Ariva Sugandi Permana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Information Technology and the Future of Cities [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Urban Economics, 1998
Summary: Will improvements in information technology eliminate face-to-face interactions and make cities obsolete? We present a model where people make contacts and choose a mode of interaction: meeting face-to-face or communicating electronically. Cities are a means of reducing the fixed travel costs involved in face-to-face interactions.
Jess Gaspar, Edward Glaeser
openaire   +2 more sources

Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A novel cost estimation model for the urban regeneration of a slum: the case of Kibera (Nairobi)

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities
Today, about one billion people worldwide reside in slums and informal settlements, which show extreme poverty and social inequality. Implementing well-structured strategies and programmes to make these settlements safer and more sustainable for ...
Antonio Nesticò   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Common Language on the Trade of Wheat and Bakery Products

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether sharing a common official language increases the probability that two countries engage in bilateral trade of wheat and bakery products. Using a binary choice framework applied to 54,780 country‐pair observations for 2023, probit and logit models of the extensive margin of trade are estimated, with a focus on whether
Felipe Durães do Nascimento Monteiro Barbosa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploiting temporal-spatial patterns of informal settlements using GIS and remote sensing technique: a case study of Jimma city, Southwestern Ethiopia

open access: yesEnvironmental Systems Research, 2019
Background Temporal change detection of informal settlement was conducted using geographic information system and remote sensing in order to evaluate the land use land cover change (LULCC) in Jimma city, southwestern Ethiopia. We analyzed the LULCC since
Misgana Secho Abebe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“A Good Place for the Poor!” Counternarratives to Territorial Stigmatisation from Two Informal Settlements in Dhaka

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2020
With many cities in the Global South experiencing immense growth in informal settlements, city authorities frequently try to assert control over these settlements and their inhabitants through coercive measures such as threats of eviction, exclusion ...
Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Peter Walters
doaj   +1 more source

Networks and Cities: An Information Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review Letters, 2005
4 pages, 4 ...
Rosvall, M   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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