What Does Social Inclusion Mean for a Resilient City?

Das, Maitreyi Bordia; Majumdar, Shruti

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“…Groups that are disproportionately affected are often (though not always) poor; they include, among others, migrant workers, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and people working in trades that are particularly susceptible to disruption during natural hazards, like street vendors and waste pickers. Persons with disabilities may lack access to warnings, evacuation notices, emergency shelters, or food distribution; they may become homebound during floods, be left behind in evacuations, or be separated from family members and caregivers (Das and Majumdar 2019). The disproportionate nature of effects plays out in other ways too.…”

Section: Box 25 Urban Floods: Disproportionate Effectsmentioning

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Inclusion Matters in Africa

Das¹,

Espinoza²

2019

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Section: Box 25 Urban Floods: Disproportionate Effectsmentioning

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Inclusion Matters in Africa

Das¹,

Espinoza²

2019

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“…Our ICBM accounts for the fact that, compared to developed economies, markets in emerging economies such as Ghana are characterized by stringent financial and resource constraints (Agbeko et al, 2016;Ofori-Dankwa and Omane-Antwi, 2015;Shantz et al, 2018). For example, in the Ghanaian context, the uncertainty of operating in such marketplaces is compounded by frequent marketplace fires (Oteng-Ababio and Sarpong, 2015;Twum-Barima, 2014), regular flooding of the marketplaces (Das and Majumdar, 2019), as well as healthcare challenges and physical dangers that marketplace operators, particularly women, will face (Beek and Thiel, 2017;Kudzawu et al, 2016;Quaidoo et al, 2018;Steel et al, 2014). The marketplace uncertainty is further compounded by historic political tensions.…”

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Microenterprise performance amidst environmental turbulence and resource scarcity: an integrated capital approach

DelVecchio,

Ofori-Dankwa,

Darkwah

2024

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PurposeMicroenterprises in emerging economies are known to operate in turbulent and resource-scarce environments. We test our hypothesis that a more comprehensive “Integrated Capital-Based Model” (ICBM) is needed when explaining the performance of microenterprises in such an environment. The model combines traditionally researched financial, human and social capital with more recently emphasized psychological and cognitive capital, providing greater explanatory power than models using only the traditional types of capital.Design/methodology/approachWe use a pooled linear regression to analyze an existing survey of more than 900 independent business owners who were interviewed seven times between 2008 and 2012 in the Accra and Tema marketplaces in Ghana. We measure the performance of microenterprises using three dependent variables (revenue, profits, and productivity). We contrast the explanatory power of ICBM models against the more traditional models.FindingsThe ICBM has significantly higher levels of explanatory power over the traditional models in examining the performance of these microenterprises. These results highlight the importance of psychological and cognitive capital in emerging economies.Research limitations/implicationsWe advocate for a more comprehensive view of capital as shown in our ICBM. However, the data were gathered only in an urban setting, which limits the generalizability to rural parts of emerging economies.Practical implicationsThese findings suggest the utility of government and appropriate agencies finding ways to enhance the level of psychological and cognitive capital of microenterprise owners.Originality/valueThis paper's originality stems from hypothesizing and empirically confirming the higher predictive efficacy of ICBM against more traditionally researched capital sources.

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“…Mizutori (2019) mostra que melhores dados econômicos, complementados por dados socioecológicos, devem: a) conduzir o planejamento nos níveis nacional e local para garantir a redução de riscos; b) incluir a adaptação às mudanças climáticas; e c) fornecer as orientações claras sobre como evitar a criação de novos riscos. Um sistema robusto de governança municipal, em que as funções e as responsabilidades de diferentes níveis de governança estão claramente delineadas é necessário para que a resiliência das cidades seja construída (Das & Majumdar, 2019). Um sistema de governança municipal requer estruturação organizacional-institucional para torna-se viável e ser capaz de relacionar-se com diferentes escalas territoriais.…”

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