Search results for "developing"

I can do this: the importance of empowerment in entrepreneurship and its effects on business performance in developing countries

2018

El empoderamiento tiene mucho que elegir en el emprendimiento y el desarrollo internacional. El empoderamiento se convierte en una prioridad cuando las personas deben actuar y ser innovadoras para superar la escasez y luchar contra la pobreza. Instituciones como el Banco Mundial y las Naciones Unidas invierten considerables fondos y esfuerzos para tratar de facilitar el empoderamiento de los países en desarrollo. El empoderamiento proporciona una mentalidad de implementación que hace que las personas busquen los medios para actuar y estén preparados para avanzar hacia sus objetivos. Una amplia investigación muestra los efectos positivos del empoderamiento en el comportamiento y los resultad…

Alternative measures of body composition and wage premium: New evidence from Indonesia

2019

This paper examines the relationship between body composition and earnings in a developing country setting. We use body mass index, waist circumference and hip circumference. Exploiting the panel structure of our longitudinal survey, we find that along with BMI, waist circumference is related to higher earnings in Indonesia. peerReviewed

Kokemukset ja opettajien väliset erot osaamisen tunnistamisen kehittämisessä : sisäisen yrittäjyyden, psykologisen omistajuuden ja työn ilon näkökulma

2013

International Assessment Surveys of Educational Achievement in Developing Countries : Why Education Economists Should Care

2015

International audience; This paper reviews the most known international assessment studies that are conducted in the context of poor countries and highlights the lack of empirical evidence on the degree to which the contents of the tests really match countries' curricula. To illustrate, the paper evaluates the sensitivity of an international testing instrument by comparing the responses of students in two consecutive grades on the same battery of tests. Using propensity score matching to control for student and teacher characteristics, the results show that the tests are not grade sensitive, which raises the question of the validity of many empirical works that are based on similar instrume…

Entrepreneurial networking of small businesses in Latin-America : the case of Villa el Salvador in Peru

2014

The marketplace vulnerability of low-income unbanked consumers : a developing country perspective

2018

Financial exclusion is recognised as an important element of socio-economic inequality where economically vulnerable groups are excluded from basic financial services. The issue of financial exclusion is mainly concentrated in the world’s developing countries. However, research on the issue of financial exclusion in the field of marketing as well as from the perspective of unbanked consumers is lacking. Although financial exclusion impedes low-income consumers’ welfare, there is a shortage of wellbeing related studies on low-income consumers in the context of developing countries. This doctoral dissertation aims to investigate the ways in which low-income unbanked consumers experience vulne…

La organización del trabajo por proyectos: La fábrica de la precariedad laboral

2019

The project-based organization, considered as a radical reorganization of work around one or more simultaneous projects, is nowadays widespread in large companies and public administrations. According to the managerial way of thinking, this system would be virtuous: by giving more autonomy to the employees in the act of production and by developing their skills through mobility and interdisciplinarity of work teams, it would be able to arouse their full commitment. This study confirms in some way how this opinion has been imposed, but at the expense of precarious working conditions, increasing the dedication of employees and silencing any form of criticism. The research is based on a review…