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URBAN INFORMAL MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN ORISSA - A CASE STUDY OF CUTTACK CITY
Promotion of the urban informal sector has become the new strategy of development in the developing economies. This paper attempts a study of some of the important characteristics of this sector in the city of Cuttack and compares it with that of the ...
Panda, Bhagirathi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigated whether superior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices enhance corporate value and market efficiency under various economic theories. Using a multi‐country panel of 31 economies from 2015 to 2022, we find that both ESG performance and disclosure improve intrinsic value and mitigate equity misvaluation ...
Xinyu Wang +5 more
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Occupational Exposure and Health in the Informal Sector: Fish Smoking in Coastal Ghana. [PDF]
Environ Health Perspect, 2022 Weyant CL +5 more
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Taxation, public services, and the informal sector in a model of endogenous growth [PDF]
Large informal sectors are an important characteristic of developing countries. The authors build a dynamic model in which the informal sector exists when overregulation (high tax rates and high cost for entering the formal sector) is coupled with an ...
Loayza, Norman V., Braun, Juan
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries can be repurposed to stationary storage batteries. While this circularity solution has attracted attention from entrepreneurs, falling battery prices, along with the longer lifetime of new batteries, high consumer expectations and limited governmental support challenge the approach.
Juliane Seika, Merla Kubli
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COVID-19, financing and sales decline of informal sector MSMEs in Senegal. [PDF]
Afr Dev Rev, 2021 Koloma Y.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses the degree of alignment with and eligibility to the EU Taxonomy of non‐financial firms and investigates its relationship with their Cost of Debt (CoD). The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 306 non‐financial firms listed on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index across 15 European countries. Taxonomy‐related data were manually
Fabio Rizzato +3 more
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter? [PDF]
The informal sector (IS) in developing countries plays significant roles viz., the provision of employment, incomes and supplying ignored markets. However, the working and employment conditions in the sector are still poor.
Kappel, Robert, Ishengoma, Esther K.
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Datasets of social capital and business performance in the Nigerian informal sector. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2021 Akintimehin OO +3 more
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Informal sector, productivity, and tax collection
The informal sector is a prominent characteristic of many developing countries. Most of the literature has focused on understanding the determinants of informality.
Leal Ordóñez, Julio C.
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