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Measuring the risk on housing investment in the informal sector: theory and evidence from Pune, India [PDF]
The authors provide an economic framework to analyze investment in informal housing in developing countries. They consider a simple model of investment in the housing market where investors can choose between two sectors-the formal sector, where physical
Kapoor, Mudit, Le Blanc, David
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui +4 more
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Behind the Lighthouse Effect [PDF]
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike.
Boeri, Tito +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The necessary environmental transition involves a substantial challenge for micro, small, and medium‐sized enterprises (MSMEs). Moreover, in the Ibero‐American context, it is even more challenging. Our study aims to shed light on the scarce and inconclusive evidence in this regard, analyzing the influence of digitalization, given its inclusion
José Antonio Clemente‐Almendros +2 more
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Problems and Prospects of Informal Manufacturing Sector: A Case Study of Durgapur City [PDF]
Even in presence of a dominant factory sector, informal manufacturing sector can play a very vital role in shaping the development profile of a region through its diverse interaction and complementarities with the organised sector. This paper, based on a
Mukherjee, Dipa
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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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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Occupational Safety and Health in the Formal and Informal Sectors - 2024, Freetown, Sierra Leone: A Workplace-Base Survey. [PDF]
Environ Health InsightsSesay BP +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
Optimal Policies and the Informal Sector [PDF]
This paper characterizes optimal policies in the presence of tax evasion and undocumented workers. Equilibrium can be characterized as segmented or non-segmented, depending on whether domestic workers work exclusively in the formal sector (segmented) or ...
Joanne Roberts +3 more
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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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Foreign enclaves, informal sector and urban unemployment: A theoretical analysis [PDF]
:- We consider a small open Harris-Todaro economy with a rural foreign enclave and urban informal sector. We introduce consumption-efficiency relation to explain the simultaneous existence of informal sector and urban unemployment.
Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar
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