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From quiet to bold encroachment: contesting dispossession in Accra’s informal sector

, 2017
This article draws on Asef Bayat’s theory of “quiet encroachment” to analyse the political agency of street hawkers and squatters in Accra, Ghana. It demonstrates how squatters and street hawkers in Ghana’s capital city are engaged in everyday practices ...
T. Gillespie
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Scientific collaboration in data‐intensive research networks: PhD fellows' expectations and early experiences

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration has become important at all stages of research careers. In data‐intensive research fields such as wind energy, many PhD fellows are socialized to such collaboration in networks that train a cohort of PhD fellows. Based on interviews with 23 PhD fellows in four wind‐energy training networks, we investigate their expectations and ...
Grischa Fraumann, Haakon Lund, Frans van der Sluis, Morten Hertzum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mandatory health insurance for the informal sector in Tanzania-has it worked anywhere! [PDF]

Front Health Serv, 2023
Mori AT.
europepmc   +1 more source

INFORMALITY SECTORAL SELECTION AND EARNINGS IN URUGUAY [PDF]

Estudios Económicos, 2007
Se identifica al trabajador informal como aquel que no contribuye al sistema de seguridad social. Se analiza la probabilidad de ser informal y se estima el diferencial de remuneraciones entre sectores, utilizando estimaciones MCO y un modelo de regresiones intercambiables.
Marisa Bucheli, Rodrigo Ceni
openaire   +2 more sources

Problems of Working Women in the Rural Informal Sector of Punjab (Pakistan)

Lahore Journal of Economics
The informal sector plays a significant role in Pakistan’s economy as well as in other developing countries. The role of the informal sector in solving the unemployment problem of Third World countries has become the focus of a conceptual and empirical ...
Karamat Ali, Abdul Hamid
doaj  

Feasibility of Biomass Briquette Production from Municipal Waste Streams by Integrating the Informal Sector in the Philippines

, 2017
A technical and socio-economic feasibility study of biomass briquette production was performed in Iloilo City, Philippines, by integrating a registered group of the informal sector.
Aries Roda D. Romallosa, E. Kraft
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A university‐certified course on dossier assessment for regulatory scientists in Africa—Reporting on our 5‐year experience

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim The shortage of trained clinical assessors in African National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) poses a challenge to effective regulatory decision‐making. Developed in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Competency Framework (WHO‐GCF), a university‐certified short course, Dossier assessment for clinical assessors in Africa, was ...
Stephanie Leigh, Boitumelo Semete‐Makokotlela, Ivana Škrnjug‐Yudov, David Mukanga, Delese Mimi Darko, Eric Karikari‐Boateng, Peter Stonier, Luther Gwaza, Precious Matsoso, Bernd Rosenkranz, Birka Lehmann, Arnold G. Vulto, John G. Woodland, Shabir Banoo, Frieda Shigwedha, Maphutheho Selikane, Unathi Mabona‐Mgoqi, Asare Yeboah, Ntombi Mthembu, Goonaseelan ( Colin) Pillai   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corruption and informal sector households' participation in health insurance in Sierra Leone. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Jofre-Bonet M, Kamara J, Mesnard A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source