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Incorporating informality into urban and regional planning education curriculum in Nigeria
Town and Regional Planning, 2012 To achieve sustainable development in any society the educational system must be responsive to the dynamics of that society. This article discusses issues on the level of training on informality in African planning schools with emphasis on the Lagos ...
Leke Oduwaye, Oluwafemi Olajide
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Beyond a state-centric approach to urban informality: Interactions between Delhi's middle class and the informal service sector. [PDF]
Curr Sociol, 2017 Schindler S.
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Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms [PDF]
Informality is widespread in most developing countries. In Latin America, 50 percent of salaried employees work informally. Three stylized facts characterize informality: 1) small firms tend to operate informally while large firms tend to operate ...
Federico Weinschelbaum +1 more
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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“Value Added Taxes, Chain Effects and Informality”, Second Version [PDF]
This paper investigates determinants of informal economic activity. We present an equilibrium model of informality and test its implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil.
Jose A. Scheinkman, Aureo de Paula
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Both universities and companies create value and innovation to maintain their position and remain competitive. Different, but still similar, with two goals that are shared. With their collaboration, they can enhance their pursuit of sustainability and as well corporate social responsibility by creating and delivering value and thus ...
Jana Hojnik +4 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance affects equity misvaluation and how country‐level factors—national culture, environmental performance indicators, and world governance indicators (WGIs)—moderate the relationship between corporate ESG performance and misvaluation.
Xinyu Wang +4 more
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Urbanization, Migration, Information
Проект Байкал, 2016 In the contemporary world urbanization becomes a large-scale process. Huge flows of people migrate from poorer districts to the cities with a higher level of consumption. It takes migrants about 15-25 years to give up their traditional ascetic way of life. In this period the ‘new citizens’ try to arrange compact settlements with an archaic way of life,
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi +2 more
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'Mafias' in the Waterscape: Urban Informality and Everyday Public Authority in Bangalore
Water Alternatives, 2014 This article investigates the phenomenon of Bangaloreʼs urban 'water mafias', operators who extract and deliver groundwater to scores of informal residential areas in Indian cities. The term 'mafia' here is treated as a semantic area of situated meanings
Malini Ranganathan
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