Essays about: "Household enterprises"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Household enterprises.

  1. 1. “All we have is this beautiful place. But we don’t have the money”: The effect of foreign direct investment and global power structures on local female entrepreneurship in Coron Town, the Philippines

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Hannah Johansson; [2023-10-25]
    Keywords : Foreign direct investment; female entrepreneurship; global power structures; westernization; feminist economics; capital;

    Abstract : Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the global South indicates both to create and obstruct local entrepreneurship opportunities in host countries. However, foreign business owners' large capitals, and global development policies encouraging FDI in the tourism industry play a significant role in this relation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Second Home, New Home

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
    Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

    Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE

  4. 3. Marketing Innovation for SMEs during COVID-19 Pandemic : A case study of the hospitality industry in Norrbotten

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle

    Author : Simon Gustavsson; Simon Larsson; [2020]
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    Abstract : As a global disaster, the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus)  has an impact on the whole world economy. The pandemic threatens the survival of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) globally and nationally. It appears inevitable that this pandemic has created a difficult business environment for small and medium sized enterprises to operate in. READ MORE

  5. 4. Income diversification, market participation and urban proximity as determinants of exit from rural poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Tillmann von Carnap-Bornheim; [2017]
    Keywords : Market Participation; Household enterprises; Structural transformation; Economic geography; Ethiopia and Tanzania;

    Abstract : It seems unlikely that Sub-Saharan Africa can follow the Asian experience of structural transformation through export-led growth. Rather, it has to rely on domestic sources to achieve substantial reductions in poverty. One such driver could be growing urban populations with increasing demand for rural products and services. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Somos pocas, pero buenas”: A case study of women’s participation within community forestry in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Elena Anne Baumanns; [2015]
    Keywords : community forestry; women’s participation; feminist political ecology; power relations; gendered rights and responsibilities; Guatemala; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Community forestry has been promoted as a participatory approach for conservation and sustainable development. Yet, community forestry was found to exclude women in different contexts around the globe. READ MORE