scholarly journals The Experience of International Street Vendor Economy’s Policy and Enlightenment Through Desk Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Yingtong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The World ◽  
Desk Research

In recent years, the street vendor economy, an informal economic activity in which individual workers obtain income by selling legal goods in urban public space, has developed rapidly all over the world. This phenomenon is inseparable from the change of attitude and policy towards informal economy in various countries, certainly, the street-stall economy has its unique charm. This paper uses the SWOT analysis, one of the desktop research’s essential methods, to obtain the international experience and inspiration for the street vendor economy through the analysis of the China, Vietnam and South Africa. By analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat of the policy and law in the Vietnam and South Africa respectively, the enlightenment from these two countries the author had studied might help promote the perfection of the policy in China.

scholarly journals Migration, Informalization and Public Space in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 150-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kirshner
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Key Points

In this paper, I ask how migrant insertion into the local economy, in particular in the informal economy, has led to contestation over public space in Santa Cruz.  Related to this issue, the paper asks what sorts of collective actions are used to defend rights to the use of urban public space, and what are the key points of contention.  In my analysis, I look at theoretical connections between the informal economy and urban space, recent changes in the Santa Cruz local economy ‒including accelerated migration and the burgeoning informal economy‒ and conflicts over uses of public urban space.En este trabajo indago cómo la inserción migratoria en la economía local, particularmente en la economía informal, ha llevado a un debate sobre los usos del espacio público en Santa Cruz. En relación con esta problemática, mi trabajo explora qué tipo de acciones colectivas se utilizan para defender los derechos del uso del espacio público urbano, y cuáles son los puntos claves de conflicto. En mi análisis, exploro las conexiones teóricas entre la economía informal y el espacio urbano, los cambios recientes en la economía local de Santa Cruz ‒incluyendo la migración acelerada y la emergente economía informal‒ y los conflictos sobre usos del espacio urbano público.

Economic Aspects of Lesotho's Relations with South Africa

1988 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Cobbe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Total Income ◽  
Domestic Output ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic

Lesotho has long had the distinction of being one of the more anomalous states not only in Southern Africa, but in the world. It is entirely surrounded by another country, the Republic of South Africa. It is ethnically and linguistically very homogeneous. It is a monarchy. Physically, the lowest point in Lesotho is higher, in vertical distance above sea level, that that in any other country. Its economy is marked by some extraordinary paradoxes, such as agriculture being the main economic activity of the bulk of the labour force albeit the origin of a small fraction of total income, imports enomously exceeding exports and being larger than domestic output, and fewer citizens working for cash inside the country than outside.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Andrew Konove
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The City

The introduction outlines the argument and principal contributions of the book. It argues that the Baratillo and the larger shadow economy in Mexico City have been essential to the economic and political life of the city since the late colonial period. The introduction explains how the study contributes to existing scholarship on the informal economy, the state, urban politics, and urban public space in Mexico and Latin America. It includes a discussion of the study’s sources and methods and brief chapter descriptions.

scholarly journals Using Agent-based Simulation for Safety: Fact-finding about a crowd accident to improve public space design

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. A88
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Liu ◽  
Toshiyuki Kaneda
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Agent Based Simulation ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Original Space ◽  
Space Design ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
Public Space Design

With the growing city density and large gatherings happening all over the world, crowd safety has become a new topic. This research discusses how to diagnosis and improve crowd safety in urban public space by analysing a real crowd accident that happened in Shanghai in 2014 using an agent-based simulator. Fact-finding analysis shows that insufficient capacity of the whole area, density difference in bottleneck stairs and lack of separation measurements in front of bottleneck stairs are the main causes of the accident. According to the media query towards the original space plan, we made two alternative plans in the bottleneck area and tested their performances.

From tweets to graffiti: ‘I am Charlie’ as a ‘writing event’

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186
Author(s):  
Maëlle Bazin
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

Any visitor who walked the streets of Paris in the days or weeks following the attacks of January 2015 would definitely have witnessed a particular form of graphic irruption: the dissemination of messages of solidarity and mourning, and the repetition, within this mass of writing, of the formula ‘I am Charlie’. Although the situation was different, the responses to terrorist attacks in January 2015 and the 9/11 aftermath are comparable by the ‘writing event’ (Fraenkel, 2002, 2018) they produced: temporary and atypical dispositifs of writing turned to the public space in order to be read or at least seen by passers-by. This article, structured along chronological lines, traces the evolution of the viral formula over the long term from Twitter to the urban public space. Firstly, the author focuses on the origin and meanings of the statement and formulates several hypotheses that may explain its wide circulation on social networks. Secondly, she analyses the post-attack graffiti based on databases of several private graffiti-cleaning companies in order to highlight the temporary sacralization of illegal writings. The ‘ Je suis Charlie’ phenomenon is interesting in many ways: its staggering, massive diffusion; the apparent unanimity with which it was greeted in the world of politics and the media; and the way it was managed by local authorities.

Invasive Shot Hole Borers Euwallacea fornicatus, E. kuroshio, and E. perbrevis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Demian F. Gomez ◽  
Jiri Hulcr ◽  
Daniel Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Invasive Species ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Ambrosia Beetles ◽  
Invasive Insects ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

Invasive species, those that are nonnative and cause economic damage, are one of the main threats to ecosystems around the world. Ambrosia beetles are some of the most common invasive insects. Currently, severe economic impacts have been increasingly reported for all the invasive shot hole borers in South Africa, California, Israel, and throughout Asia. This 7-page fact sheet written by Demian F. Gomez, Jiri Hulcr, and Daniel Carrillo and published by the School of Forest Resources and Conservation describes shot hole borers and their biology and hosts and lists some strategies for prevention and control of these pests. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr422

World Economic Crisis as a Process of Substitution of Technological Modes

2009 ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Glaziev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Long Wave ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Technological Mode ◽  
World Economic Crisis

The article analyzes fundamental reasons for the world economic crisis in the light of global technological shifts. It proves that it is caused by the substitution of technological modes. It is shown that sharp increase and slump in stock indices and prices for energy resources are typical of the process of technological substitution which occurs regularly according to the rhythm of long-wave fluctuations of the world economic activity. The article rationalizes a package of anti-crisis measures aimed at stimulating the new technological mode. Its structure and role of the locomotive factor of the new long wave of economic growth are revealed.

The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Sabrina Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Financial Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

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