March 2010 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Highlights of the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) 4 Impact on Displaced Women and Men in Export Processing Zones 4 Impact on Informal Sector Workers and/or Informal Support Service Providers 5 Impact on Displaced Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and on Families dependent on remittances 6 Impact on Rural Communities 7 Impact on the Young Women and Men 8 Gender Dimension
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FINANCIAL GROWTH AND CHALLENGES FACING THE GROWTH OF SMEs IN KENYA CHAPTER ONE; INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND In recent years‚ the nurturing of SMES have become the dominant theme of development economics. This rediscovery of the importance of the spirit of free enterprise was undoubtedly prompted by the failure of centrally planned communist economies. The achievement of impressive prosperity by certain East Asian and western countries also encouraged the start up of SMES (Mwaura‚ 2006)
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Freya DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES FACING MEGACITIES AND EVALUATE THE RESPONSES TO THESE CHALLENGES Mega Cities are cities that have a population of more than 8 million and are characterised by the challenges they face‚ including issues involving the informal economy‚ unemployment‚ poor sanitation and shelter. These issues are largely prominent in these cities due to rapid urban growth and a lack of resources. In many cases action has been taken by national governments and non-governmental organisations
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labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity‚ on part or full-time basis. The practice deprives children of their childhood‚ and is harmful to their physical and mental development. Poverty‚ lack of good schools and growth of informal economy are considered as the important causes of child labour in India. The 2001 national census of India estimated the total number of child labour‚ aged 5–14‚ to be at 12.6 million. The child labour problem is not unique to India; worldwide
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Term paper ON Organizational Behavior & Structure Course Code: MBA-509 Subject: Impact of informal group on formal organization Submitted To: Salahuddin Ahmed Deputy Director Bangladesh Institute of Management(BIM)‚Chittagong Prepared By: Md. Monowar Hossain ID. 10435021 Batch – 52 Email:monowar_sagar@yahoo.com Cell: 01711785640 [pic] School of Business University of Information Technology and Science (UITS)‚ Chittagong‚ Campus. Letter Of Submission 25April‚ 2011 To The Course Teacher
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THE INFORMAL SECTOR. In India‚ about 92% of the labour force or about 326 million persons work in the informal sector. As such‚ it can be well be termed as the “Informal Economy”. The concept of the Informal Sector was first introduced by Keith Hart in a field study of urban workers in Ghana in 1971 for denoting the self – employed sector which provided a source of income to many new entrants to the labour force who were unable to secure jobs in the organized or formal sector. The concept
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The Role of Informal Sector Employment in Poverty Alleviation: The Case of Hawassa City‚ Ethiopia Abstract: <p>Informal sector plays an important role in urban poverty alleviation through creating jobs and reducing unemployment. It serves as a breeding ground for new entrepreneurs‚ and contributes for the reduction of urban crime and violence. This study is aimed at assessing the role of informal sector in solving unemployment and alleviating poverty. Primary data are gathered from a sample
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classification of businesses is into the primary‚ secondary‚ tertiary sectors. I have chosen 5 Businesses which are: 1. eBay 2. ASDA 3. Beekeeping 4. Oxfam 5. Potter Primary:- Extraction or collection of raw material natural Resources e.g. Coal mining‚ oil rigs‚ farming‚ fishery‚ forestry mining. Secondary:- Manufacturing and construction taking things this may be from raw materials of other manufactures Tertiary sectors:- Service industries providing services for other people financial
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Sectors contributing to India’s GDP India is a vast country‚ so the sectors contributing to the country’s GDP is also big in numbers. Various sectors falling under the India GDP composition includes food processing‚ transportation equipment‚ petroleum‚ textiles‚ software‚ agriculture‚ mining‚ machinery‚ chemicals‚ steel‚ cement and many others. Agriculture is the pre dominant occupation in India‚ employing more than 50% of the population. The service sector accounts for employing more than 25%
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Subject name: Macro Economics. Assignment topic: “Private sector vs. Public sector” Submitted by: Zareen Rana 12-BS-S-82 Submitted to: Miss. Aysha Sarfraz Submission date: Private sector vs. public sector * Private sector: The part of the economy that is not state controlled‚ and is run by individuals and companies for profit. In most free-market economies‚ the private sector is the sector where most jobs are held. This differs from countries
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