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Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
This paper studies the causes and consequences of informality and applies the analysis to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality, as well as on the reasons why widespread ...
Loayza, Norman V. +2 more
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Town and Regional Planning, 2012 Access to urban land and resources and the pervasiveness of informality are perhaps the main cross-cutting features defining contemporary urbanism in the South, where the urbanisation of poverty is not only acute but where there is an increasing ...
Nigel Tapela
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Conceptualizing Parliamentary Diplomacy
Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политикаAim. The article reveals the conceptual foundations of parliamentary diplomacy.Methods. In order to fulfill the purpose, the author drew upon theoretical methodology namely modelling, chronological, comparative, complementary and parallel approaches ...
L. A. Savelchev
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Metadiscourse Features in Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering: The Use of Interactive and Interactional Markers [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada: Several studies on metadiscourse zero in on how genres show nuances of linguistic features that reside in various structures depending upon the linguistic exigencies of language for specific purposes.
Ramsey Ferrer
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Cogent Business & ManagementEntrepreneurial ecosystems are essential to driving innovation and supporting new ventures across Africa. However, most existing models are built on assumptions drawn from high-income settings and often fail to reflect African realities.
Karikari Amoa-Gyarteng +4 more
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Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique [PDF]
, 2015 While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality.
Chikanda, Abel +2 more
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Multimodality in Online Political Discourse: Internet Memes about Scottish Independence
Научный диалог, 2019 The article is dedicated to the mediation of the possible independence of Scotland in social networks. A multimodal analysis of thematic Internet memes 2014-2016 is carried out as examples of online political discourse.
O. A. Blinova
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on the number and size of firms in the formal and informal sectors, as well as on relative wages, relative size of the two sectors and overall unemployment. We show that entry costs in
Cristina Terra +2 more
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Linguistic Analysis of Unplanned Discourse in David Sedaris “Calypso”
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesThis study aims to investigate the linguistic features that distinguish spontaneous and informal communication between individuals, often known as unplanned discourse.
Binin Mustafa Saeed +1 more
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Communicative Situation of Oral Professional Communication within English-Language Medical Discourse
Научный диалог, 2017 The article is devoted to scientific and professional communication between specialists in one of the fields, namely the medical discourse. The research is based on English texts of the dialogues of the doctors from the TV series “House” and “ER” as well
M. S. Nevzorova
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