Contemporary social policy and development literature has recognized microinsurance as a new and promising avenue for extending social protection coverage to workers in the informal sector in developing countries. However, emerging research on the subject has focused narrowly on…
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This research investigates working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, its gender dimensions, and national and international policy implications. Qualitative investigation techniques were applied: (i) 52 in-depth interviews, (ii) more than …
This dissertation explores the emergence and evolution of global microlending practices for the poor now at the forefront of the contemporary international debate on poverty alleviation research and policy. It uses narrative analysis methodology to (1) critically examine the fou…
This thesis critically analyses the significance of the local unregulated water market as an underground component of the wider urban waterscape in Ethiopia, specifically a peripheral and low-income sub-city of Addis Ababa called Akaki Kality. Of particular concern are the busin…
More than half of the human population will be living in urban areas in 2008, of which 81 percent will be in poor areas of towns and cities of the developing world. Governments of most African cities are unable to provide the urgently needed sanitation facilities amongst other s…
Although the Ministry of Health, Indonesia, has achieved some successful occupational health interventions, published literature on such interventions in Indonesia remains scarce. This study utilized mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative research for the years 2010 and 2…
In the first essay I develop a quantitative framework of firm dynamics where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and government taxation. Informal sector firms do not pay taxes but have no access to external finance. For taxes and financial con…
This dissertation focuses on three aspects of the economic life of migrants' relatives who remained in the source country. In the second chapter, we argue that migration increases the job dissatisfaction of migrants’ relatives who work in the source country. The family’s migrati…
This dissertation studies the transition dynamics to long-run, sustainable growth in developing countries, given some of their identifying characteristics such as existence of a large informal sector, asset and income inequalities among individuals, uneven regional economic grow…