Abstract During the 1980s and 1990s, violent events occurred in streets of many African Middle Eastern countries. Each event had its own logic saw intervention actors with differing profiles. What they common was that all took place context implementation a neoliberal political economy. The anger these policies aroused first expressed by people who were not necessarily rebelling against adjustm...

Coastal city of the Ivory Coast, San-Pedro is rich in natural, economic and tourist resources. This study analyses contribution tourism economy to local development. Documentary research a field survey were used collect data. It should be remembered that has floristic, climatic hydrographic assets. Moreover, human capital one pillars this activity with diversity actors, socio-cultural wealth in...

A local civic organization, Greater Philadelphia First, engaged us to study the knowledge economy of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region and make recommendations on ways to improve its rate of growth. To structure our thinking and the interviews with local entrepreneurs, civic leaders, and others, using soft operations research techniques, we developed a framework for collecting ideas through...

Many workers in Asia are in the informal economy. They often work in substandard conditions, exposed to hazards in the workplace. Learning from the recent successes of participatory training programmes to improve safety and health in Asia, the ILO has strengthened its partnership efforts with local people to improve safety and health of informal economy workplaces. The target groups were: (1) h...

Local economic development in Indonesia is still quite minimal, requiring new policies and strategies such as the creative economy. This study analyzes influence of economy represented by concentration class its supporting factors on local development. Using panel data from Barekraf / BPS statistics for 2011-2015, results show that working has a significant impact including factor proportion gr...