Cultural studies ; Fair ; Informal sector ; Latin America ; Market ; Periodic market ; Photography ; Retail trade
Vignettes crafted around 20 photographs taken in Latin America of different marketing arrangments: traditional village markets selling produce, public markets in cities; informal vendors; centers of wholesale distribution; neighborhood shops
Alternative approaches to market-area structure in the urban system
Central places ; Centrality ; Gravity model ; Market ; Market area ; Retail trade ; Urban system
It is argued that the market-area structure within the typical model of an urban system does not conform satisfactorily to the pattern customarily observed. The market-area structure of the standard model of a central place system is modified
by applying two additional frameworks: the economic law of market areas and the law of retail gravitation. Each application results in a more relistic pattern of market areas, while preserving the hierarchical structure of the central place system.
It is shown that coffee marketing within the traditional market system of an Indonesian highland area turns out to be an increasing disadvantage for the rural poor since it involves high transaction costs. New practices will have
Outcomes in private markets for rental housing are seen as a consequence of a shift in demand or supply that may itself reflect a policy initiative. Two markets are examined: a market for rental housing stock and a market for rental accomodation
Housing ; Housing market ; Housing occupance ; Public sector ; Rent ; Rent control ; Rented market ; Third World
This review attempts to provide an overview of the literature, not because one form of tenure can be considered in isolation from other property market processes, but as a springboard for future research into urban housing markets which is less
Acquiring property ; Credit ; Finance ; Housing ; Housing market ; Ireland ; Owner-occupier ; Real estate development ; Real estate market ; Suburbanization
Using a structures of housing provision framework, the A. examines the dynamics of the Irish housing market over the period 1970-90. Combining data on macro-level trends in housing finance with information gathered from interviews with senior
building society personnel, it is argued that the restructuring of the mortgage market in the 1980s has significantly altered the set of social relations between agents in the market. The impacts were negative on the owner-occupied sector.
Labour markets and migrant absorption in small towns. The case of northern Costa Rica
Costa Rica ; Economic structure ; Employment ; Labour market ; Migration ; Peripheral region ; Small town
The subject of this study is the absorption of migrants into the labour markets of three small and intermediate urban centres (SIUCs) in a non-metropolitan region in Costa Rica. The eight chapters deal with the regional context of the study
, the production structure and labour markets and the migration and migrant absorption. - (AGD)
Non-market forces, the nation state and the European Union
There is nothing surprising about regional inequality. Markets are inherently restless. Prosperity can be cumulative. Any tendency to regional convergence may owe much to non-market forces - tax and public expenditure patterns which benefit poorer
A debt-owing democracy: the political impact of housing market recession at the British general election of 1992
The paper investigates the impact of housing recession on the geography of the vote at the 1992 general election. Party fortunes are linked to local housing market conditions, and the failure of the housing market is a factor in reducing support
From a settler history to an African present: housing markets in Harare, Zimbabwe
Colonial policy ; Housing ; Housing market ; Housing occupance ; Land ; Residential environment ; Urban development ; Zimbabwe
Although the public sector accepts responsibility for satisfying low-income housing needs by supplying serviced plots, this bureaucratic supply is quantatively inadequate and not affordable for many. The analysis reveals penetration of market forces
Ethnicity, market, and migration in the Andes: At the crossroads of history and anthropology
Andes ; Anthropology ; Bolivia ; Colonial period ; Ethnic community ; Ethnicity ; History ; Market ; Migration ; Money ; Peru ; South America ; Trade
English language edition, updated and revised, of papers first published in Spanish in 1987. Twelve essays on markets in the colonial past of Peru and Bolivia that relate to ethnic identity, gender, meaning of money and politics and ecology
Vietnamese activity in the Adelaide real estate market
Acquiring property ; Adelaide ; Australia ; Housing ; Housing cost ; Real estate market ; Residential location ; South Australia ; Spatial concentration ; Urban segregation
Vietnamese buyers to be disproportionately active in the middle-to-lower end of the market within which there has been a strong preference for rural properties and for houses rather than home units and maisonettes.
Ethnic minority groups in regional and local labour markets in Britain: a review of data sources and associated issues
Data collection ; Ethnic group ; Great Britain ; Local labour market ; Minority ; Nationality ; Occupational activity ; Regional disparities ; United Kingdom