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Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements [PDF]
Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security.
Lall, Somik V. +2 more
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This chapter makes a strong and very convincing case for slum gentrification. It is defined as a process of capital or material investment in poor and informal built environments, which can be associated with a new (or renewed) interest in the cultures ...
Ascensão, Eduardo
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Abstract Community participation is recognized as a crucial yet problematic element for addressing many issues in social development. Generating participation, however, is particularly challenging due to existing inequalities within heterogeneous communities, making it difficult for organizations to engage marginalized groups while letting go of their ...
Trish Ruebottom +2 more
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Education Outcomes & Child’s Work: A Case Study of Children in Slum
This study attempts to map two of the most vital social processes among children in the contexts of Slum. The two social processes being working and Learning; without violating the legislative frameworks on child labour, children working inside the ...
Kameshwara, K., Shukla, T.
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Diet, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Nutritional Status in Fiji: A Scoping Review
ABSTRACT Increasing fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is essential for transitioning toward healthier, more sustainable diets. To design effective intervention programmes to promote F&V intake, it is crucial to understand intake levels and dietary patterns across different demographic groups as well as populations' nutritional status.
Fusta Azupogo +3 more
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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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Public agencies and NGOs in India have been pursuing slum-improvement projects since a long time, often with remarkable success. However, though political resolve, finances and basic institutional capacity are not a constraint today, scaling-up has ...
Bimal Patel +3 more
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ABSTRACT Urban enclave scholarship has focused on ethnic enclaves as territorial formations produced by long‐term settlements and low‐wage migrant workers. This article critiques these presumptions by examining how Taiwanese temporary migrant workers in the online gambling industry in Metro Manila, the Philippines, produce a digital enclave organized ...
Zih‐Lun Huang
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ABSTRACT European countries have experienced significant transformations in their urban populations, with a resurgence of the residential segregation challenges. Yet, empirical analyses focusing on spatial dynamics within urban areas and between the main urban places, along with the changes in demographic profiles of populations, remain rare. The study
Francesca Bitonti +3 more
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