Download or read book Contrapunto written by Cathy A. Rakowski and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The informal sector denotes the small-scale, unprotected, and loosely regulated activities and self-employment that proliferate in developing countries. This book is about the people who engage in informal activities and the people who study, interpret, intervene in, promote, or attempt to repress or regulate the sector. The authors bring together and evaluate for the first time competing theories, policies, and research findings on the informal sector, dealing with issues of power, ideology, and politics; basic research, applied research, program evaluation, and policymaking; exploitation, entrepreneurship, and opportunity; and poverty and the accumulation of wealth.

Download or read book Migration Remittances And Small Business Development written by Sergio Diaz-Briquets and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) was a manifestation of widespread public concern over the volume of undocumented immigration into the United States. The principal innovation of this legislation-the provision to impose penalties on employers who knowingly hire undocumented immigrants-was a response to this concern. This effort at restriction was tempered in IRCA by other provisions permitting the legalization of two types of undocumented immigrantsthose who had resided in the United States since January 1, 1982; and what were called special agricultural workers (SAWs), persons who had worked in perishable crop agriculture for at least 90 days during specified periods from 1983 to 1986. Approximately 3.1 million persons sought legalization (what is popularly referred to as amnesty) under these two provisions. The breakdown was roughly 1.8 million under the regular program and 1.3 million as SAWs. Mexicans made up 75 percent of the combined legalization requests."

Download or read book Grassroots Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Political Cycles of Class Conflict and Regime Change written by Maxwell Allan Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book About Fringes Margins and Lucky Dips written by Paul van Gelder and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns Y. Baud: "Women working in the informal sector: the role of technological change and women's organizations". This paper summarises the results of a 1985 seminar on women's work in the informal sector in an international perspective, with special reference to manufacturing production and subcontracting work. Three basic topics were discussed: first, the conceptual aspects of the informal sector and the analysis of women's work from a gender perspective. Second, the impact of technological change on the labour process and the informalisation of women's work both in developed and developing countries. Third, the manner in which women working within the context of casual work relations manage to organise themselves and the strategies they adopt. The constraints which pertain to the socio-political and economic context are highlighted.

Download or read book Environment and Urbanization written by Human Settlements Programme and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Underground Production in Peru written by Brian Branch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small scale Production written by Henk Thomas and published by Intermediate Technology Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying special attention to areas such as spatial analysis, labour and work, the role of technology and the involvement of non-government development organizations, this book examines the promotion of small-scale production as a means of solving employment problems around the world.

Download or read book Beyond the Megacity written by Nadine Reis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of "peripheral urbanization" as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South. From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.

Download or read book Contents of Periodicals on Latin America written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revista written by Colegio Interamericano de Defensa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cepalindex ECLAC system documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Notas sobre la econom a y el desarrollo written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nicaragua written by Doreen B. Massey and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the evolving geographical relationships within Nicaragua, and especially on relations between Managua, the dominant capital city, and the rest of the country.

Download or read book Housing Policy in Latin American Cities written by Peter M. Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (LAHN), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities. This volume breaks new ground by opening up a new generation of housing policy in Latin America cities with broader application for other developing countries. Its editors bring unique perspectives: Peter Ward coordinates the LAHN, and Edith Jiménez and María Di Virgilio are founding members of the network who have led project teams in Guadalajara and Buenos Aires respectively. Developed as a coordinated collaborative research project, the volume encompasses nine Latin American countries and eleven cities. The editors and contributors offer original perspectives on the policy challenges facing much of the low income housing of Latin American cities; document the changing nature of the "first suburbs"; present comparative survey findings in order to better understand the types of consolidated settlements that exist today; describe the physical nature of the dwellings themselves; identify the reasons behind market dysfunction that impede the operation of consolidated housing informal markets in Latin American cities; and outline a new generation of housing policies that will support the processes of densification, rehabilitation, and regeneration of these settlements. This book is the first and only composite overview of the research findings and advocacy of the generic policy lines that the LAHN identifies as central to a new generation of housing strategies and approaches. Researchers and practitioners working on housing theory, housing policy, comparative spatial and sociological research, and urban development issues will find the book highly significant.

Download or read book Revista de Planeaci n Y Desarrollo written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Apertura Econ mica Y Empleo written by Philippe Egger and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises six articles discussing the effects of structural adjustment on employment, productivity and income.