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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Infographic: 18 City Innovations Towards Bangkok 2030
18 City Innovations Towards Bangkok 2030 (click on the thumbnail for the full size image)
Dr. ATM Nurul Amin
Q: What are the emerging trends in the informal sector in Southeast Asia? A: “Southeast Asia consists of countries at different levels of economic development. The informal economy tends to shrink as the overall economy grows. But when recession takes …
The Leaderless Organization and Two Edged Applications
Keyword: leaderless organization; self-organizing; sweet spot; community; Network; Wikipedia; Open Source. Idea: Each organization requires a specific style of leader, but the role of the leader may vary. In the conventional organizational style such as in the hierarchical or centralized …
Informal Economy and Innovation
Keywords: Formality; collaborative consumption; informal enterprise; modern trade Idea: Since the introduction of “the dual sector model” concept in the early 1950s, the traditional sector has been marginalized by the capitalist sector through a grand scale of industrialization and modern …
Informal mobility is here to stay
Keywords: Informal transport; paratransit; economic and social regulations; social protection; entrepreneurship Idea: Informal transport is a basic service indispensible to urban lives in most developing countries in Southeast Asia. It provides relatively demand-responsive services to city residents who have no …
Editorial
“Informality” as a concept first emerged in the 1960s among Western social scientists who adopted the formal-informal dualistic framework to understand urban migration and labor markets in developing countries. The International Labor Organization (ILO) picked up and popularized the idea …




