scholarly journals Micro Enterprises In Inner-City Communities: Current Challenges And Viability

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arup K. Sen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Financial Factors ◽  
Controllable Factors ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
The City ◽  
Micro Enterprises

Supporting micro enterprises within inner-city communities is a viable strategy to promote economic development, combat poverty, and alleviate social costs. Some authors suggest that micro entrepreneurship is essential to maintain a healthy economy within low-income communities. This paper is aimed at highlighting the profile and functioning of micro enterprises in inner-city Buffalo, New York with regards to aspects such as size, financial and non-financial assistance, goals and barriers experienced by micro entrepreneurs. Data from an exploratory survey of 100 micro enterprises suggest that micro entrepreneurs encounter several problems that impact negatively on their profitability and viability. The data also suggests that these entrepreneurs are constrained not only by financial factors but also non-controllable factors such as the economy of the city, availability of reliable labor, and insurance requirements. This paper concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the survey findings for developing strategies to address issues facing micro enterprises in inner-city communities

Wastewater-fed aquaculture systems in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: status and trends.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Viet Huy Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Nutrient Source ◽  
Water Spinach ◽  
Status And Trends ◽  
Rice Fish ◽  
The City

Abstract There are currently eight types of wastewater-fed aquaculture (WFA) systems in Ho Chi Minh City: seed production, fish-livestock, fish-water mimosa, fish-lotus, rice-fish, fish-only, water spinach, and fish-water spinach. Some utilize wastewater efficiently as a nutrient source, while some others have to control carefully the intake of wastewater. WFA has attracted farmers on their own initiative. Although it provides a living for a significant number of urban farmers and plays important roles in farmers' livelihoods, it is now under threat from the process of economic development of the city. The impacts of urbanization on former WFA sites in inner city zone of district 6 and district 8 where it is disappearing rapidly indicate what is likely to happen to current WFA sites in the city. Urbanization has also created livelihood uncertainties for farmers. The attraction of high prices of land and the impacts of urbanization projects are the main constraints, resulting in the decline in WFA areas. Pollution from uncontrolled and dispersed industrialization is another threat for WFA.

scholarly journals Strategi Pengembangan Ekonomi Mualaf di Kota Padang

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
M. Zaky Mubarak Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Development Strategies

This study aims to find the economic development strategies of converts in the city of Padang. The research approach was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method by collecting data through interviews, documentation and focus group discussions. The research explains that the economic problems of converts to cities in the city are caused by the severance of family relations, lack of ability, lack of converts, lack of assistance and lack of community awareness. The strategy in the economic development of converts in the city of Padang is happy with four processes. First, the making of converts as a means of gathering converts and becomes problem solving for all converts in the city of Padang. Second, capacity building is carried out by conducting trainings that provide theability of converts so that converts have the opportunity to make a business. Third, the provision of financial assistance aims to enable the ability of entrepreneurs who have been trained to be implemented in the form of business through financial assistance from both the government and the private sector. Fourth, supervision and assistance to the business carried out by converts in order to survive and be developed so that they can help other converts. To see the effects of the concept of this strategy it is necessary to implement all of these strategies so that they can be assessed and evaluated in an effort to improve the economy of converts.

Building Small Worlds in Urban Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 260-282
Author(s):  
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
At Risk Children ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
The City

Chapter twelve calls for a renewal of the “small is beautiful” movement and explores how the benefits of growing up in a village can be recreated in urban settings. The author presents E. F. Schumacher’s 1973 book Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, and its relationship to contemporary concepts, such as sustainability and the circular economy. that focus on sustaining human-scaled communities rather than on growing the GDP. The author describes and compares two initiatives that mobilize the strength of collaborative community to benefit at risk children and youth. The first is set in the city of Naples, in southern Italy, where a parish priest named Antonio Loffredo tapped the energy and aspirations of young people to build a collaborative community cooperative in an inner city neighbourhood called La Sanita’, as an alternative to the lure of organized crime. The second is the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), founded in the historically black neighbourhood of New York City by Geoffrey Canada, to prove that black children, given a fair start, could achieve the American dream. While similar in many ways, each initiative was shaped by and reflects the macrosystemic values of the surrounding culture.

Empreendedorismo: desenvolvimento da Economia para Famílias de Baixa Renda

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (36) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
José Paulo De Sousa ◽  
Danyelle Mestre De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Os projetos públicos voltados ao empreendedorismo podem auxiliar e mudar a vida das pessoas de baixa renda e o desenvolvimento econômico da cidade. O lócus de investigação foi constituído pela praça de alimentação, construída pelo Poder Público, para dimensão do empreendedorismo na cidade de Santa Cruz do Capibaribe PE, que investiu recursos, criando renda e oportunidades de emprego e de negócio. Para tanto, constatou-se que financiamentos voltados para pessoas de baixa renda favorecem o crescimento do Arranjo Produtivo Local (APL) e agregam benefícios imensuráveis e desenvolvem renda para as partes envolvidas, tanto quanto para a sociedade, que ganha, desta forma, benefícios imensuráveis. Palavras-chave: Mudanças. Administração Empresarial. Poder Público. AbstractThe public projects focusing on entrepreneurship can help and change the low-income people’s lives and the city’s economic development. The locus of research was constituted by the food court built by the Government for the entrepreneurship dimension in the city of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe (PE), which invested resources, creating income and employment and business opportunities. Therefore, it was found that funding to low-income people, promote the growth of Local productive Arrangement (APL) and adds immeasurable benefits and develop income for the parties as much as for society that obtains immeasurable benefits. Keywords: Changes. Business Administration. Public Power. 

scholarly journals Regional Economic Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gray
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The City

This paper is an analysis of one major local economic development policy in New York City. NYCEDC (New York City Economic Development Corporation) recently is implementing a program “UrbanTech NYC” to support entrepreneurs and innovators to help them find solutions for challenging problems in sectors of energy, transportation, water, waste, and agriculture in the city. UrbanTech NYC provides shared spaces and resources, equipment, pilot opportunities, prototyping, and learning opportunities to let these entrepreneurs and innovators being innovative in smart technologies. They provide two hubs, one in Manhattan, and one in Brooklyn with over 100,000 square feet of affordable and flexible space along with prototyping and piloting equipment. The paper also identifies three other policy options that New York City can adopt and implement instead of the current policy option. They briefly include maintaining the status que, providing tax incentives to big established well-known companies, and investing in implementation and provisions of smart infrastructure to attract entrepreneurs and firms to create a smart industry cluster in the city. Each of these policy options have positive and negative aspects that will be discussed in details through the paper. In addition, this paper provides an evaluation of the current policy option accompanying by alternative policy options.The paper will be concluded that the preferred policy is the current policy. The current policy, “UrbanTech NYC”, is a novel platform for new entrepreneurs and innovators that aligns with other simultaneous policies and programs in New York that together they can be successful in their goals. Since these new policies try to deal with newly identified problems in the city with novel solutions and perspective, they are actively involved in knowledge spillover and information, reducing regulatory burdens on entrepreneurs, so they are worth trying.

The Lindsay Administration and the Sanitation Crisis of New York City, 1966–1973

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1138-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themis Chronopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Manager ◽  
Modern City ◽  
City Agency ◽  
The City

This article examines efforts by the John V. Lindsay administration (1966–1973) to deal with the New York City sanitation crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s. By this period, the Department of Sanitation could barely function in most low-income neighborhoods of New York City, and this resulted in a series of direct and indirect protest actions. The mass media blamed Mayor Lindsay for the situation and characterized him as an ineffectual city manager. This image has persisted with scholars contending that Lindsay never figured out how to run the city government. This article diverges from these accounts and argues that the Lindsay administration actually rebuilt the Department of Sanitation—a city agency that was operationally breaking down before Lindsay became mayor. In fact, the Lindsay administration popularized the notion that a modern city with global aspirations has to meet the basic spatial needs of its residents and that efficient and responsive sanitation delivery can be achieved through the rationalization of resources and services.

scholarly journals Accessibility to Essential Medicines in New York City by Zip Code Income Levels and Boroughs

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Aronson ◽  
Joyce Addo-Atuah
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Drug Prices ◽  
The City

Access to essential medicines is fundamental to medication adherence, continuity of care and hence population health outcomes and overall quality of life. Disparities in the availability and the cost of these medications in New York City, especially for low income neighborhoods, would compound the underlying health disparities in these neighborhoods. This study examined the physical and financial accessibility to 8 of the 150 Most Frequently Prescribed Drugs in New York, 2 each for Asthma, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Hyperlipidemia, 4 conditions that are among the top 10 most costly conditions in the United States. The study did not find any significant differences in mean drug prices between the high, medium, and low income neighborhoods in the City. However, the significantly different income levels and uninsured rates across neighborhood income strata in the City (p<0.001 for both), coupled with the high disease burden and other underlying disparities in low income neighborhoods, would point to potential affordability challenges for needed medications in these neighborhoods. On the other hand, significant differences in mean prices between the 5 City boroughs were found for 3 of the study drugs: Advair™, p=0.009; Amlodipine 10mg, p<0.001; and Lisinopril 10mg, p=0.046. No such significant differences were observed for the mean prices of the other 5 study drugs-Proventil HFA,™ Metformin HCL 500mg, Glipizide ER 5mg, Simvastatin 20mg, and Atorvastatin 10mg. The study findings did not also suggest that drug prices are dictated by the number of pharmacies in a neighborhood. Further studies would be needed to better understand the complexities associated with the accessibility of essential medicines in New York City. These studies could include qualitative ones which would examine the perceptions and experiences of City residents with respect to the accessibility of prescribed medications as the basis for targeted interventions directed at promoting access to needed medications for all New Yorkers.   Type: Student Project

Summer Camp and Self-Esteem of School-Age Inner-City Children

2005 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Readdick ◽  
G. Robert Schaller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Disadvantaged School ◽  
Pocono Mountains

The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that a session of summer camp would increase the self-esteem of economically disadvantaged, school-age children from New York's inner-city neighborhoods. This study was conducted at a small, coeducational residential summer camp in the Pocono Mountains designed for children ages 6–12 years from low-income areas of New York City. During each of four 12-day sessions, the Piers-Harris Children's Self-concept Scale was administered as a pretest and posttest to a sample of 68 children (36 boys and 32 girls; 33 African American, 34 Hispanic, and 1 Asian) of 742 attending camp for the summer. Children scored significantly higher on the measure of self-esteem at the end of camp than at the beginning. Positive descriptions and ratings of self on popularity increased significantly. Observations and interviews with children suggested physical and social environmental features, such as contact with nature and having the same counselor as a previous year, may support self-esteem. Findings are discussed within a framework for biophilia, an innate urge to affiliate with nature which unfolds from earliest childhood on.

scholarly journals Youth Willingness to Purchase Whole Grain Snack Packs from New York City Corner Stores Participating in a Healthy Retail Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3233
Author(s):  
Tashara M. Leak ◽  
Felicia Setiono ◽  
Navika Gangrade ◽  
Erika Mudrak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Low Income ◽  
York City ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Whole Grain ◽  
Corner Stores ◽  
Willingness To Purchase ◽  
The City ◽  
Healthy Retail

Corners stores in low-income communities are a promising setting to intervene in youth whole grain intake. One strategy that may encourage whole grain intake is if corner stores were to pair and sell whole grain snacks in combination with either a liked fruit or vegetable and an optional condiment (i.e., a whole grain snack pack). This study examined youth in terms of their (1) liking of fruits, vegetables, and whole grain snacks; (2) perceptions about which fruits and vegetables pair best with whole grain snacks; and (3) willingness to pay for a whole grain snack pack. One-time intercept surveys were conducted with 10–18-year-olds (n = 402) who visited a New York City (NYC) corner store (n = 34) participating in the City Harvest Healthy Retail Program. On average, youth were willing to spend $2.38 (SD $4.32) on a whole grain snack pack. Higher overall liking scores for vegetables and whole grain snacks were associated with willingness to spend 24.4% (95% confidence interval (CI): 11.5–38.7%) and 21.6% (95%CI: 5.2–40.6%) more on whole grain snack packs, respectively. In conclusion, youth are receptive to purchasing whole grain snack packs from NYC corner stores participating in a healthy retail program.

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