scholarly journals The Administration of Small-Scale Economies in the Cross- Border Trade in Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol VIII (Issue 2) ◽  
pp. 210-218
Author(s):  
Hadi Suratman ◽  
FX. ◽  
Nanik Trihastuti
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
The Cross

scholarly journals Forced migrant families' assemblages of care and social protection between solidarity and inequality

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Amelina ◽  
Niklaas Bause
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Cross

The article analyses various forms of care and social protection that forced-migrant transnational families exchange despite their individual members living in different countries. It presents outcomes of a small-scale empirical study of the family practices of mobile individuals from Syria and Afghanistan who arrived in Germany during and after the "long summer of 2015". Building on social protection research and transnational care studies, the article introduces the concept of care and protection assemblages, which highlights the heterogeneity, processuality and multi-scalar quality of migrant families’ efforts to improve well-being. It includes an empirical analysis that illustrates key elements of the proposed concept and shows the significance of cross-border circulation of remittances, the selectivity in the cross-border circulation of emotions and limitations on the cross-border circulation of hands-on and practical care. These findings are framed by an analysis of solidarity organizations at the meso-level and (multiscalar) securitized asylum policies at the macro-level in the German context. The proposed conceptual framework takes into consideration migrant families’ simultaneity of solidarity and inequality experiences by locating the examination of family-making at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.

scholarly journals Cross-Border Trade of Russian Regions in 2013–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Ilia Shubin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mineral Fertilizers ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Border Area ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Neighboring Country ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
The Cross

The article examines the cross-border trade of the Russian regions, taking into account the indicators of its volume and commodity structure, and the level of economic complexity. It is concluded that the cross-border trade in Russian regions has, in general, low intensity. This is due to several factors: most of the border areas are located on the economic periphery, both of Russia and of neighboring countries, there are physical and geographical barriers in many areas, and the development of the border area is low. In some cases, the low economic potential of a neighboring country or the existing geopolitical restrictions prevent the growth of trade. Against this background, two sections of the border area stand out: the Russian-Belarusian and the Russian-Chinese. In the first case, the development of trade is facilitated by the absence of customs barriers, historic ties and ethno-cultural proximity, a high degree of infrastructure development of border areas; in the second – by the huge scale of the economy of the neighboring country and a large potential volume of trade with it. In terms of the commodity structure of cross-border trade and its complexity, Russian border regions are usually suppliers of relatively simple goods: raw materials or products of the first processing stages, and import goods of higher complexity, which generally corresponds to the foreign trade specialization of Russia. In 2013–2019, the volume of cross-border trade in Russian regions significantly decreased, mainly due to a reduction in consumer and investment imports caused by a decrease in demand. The strongest decline occurred in cross-border trade with Ukraine. The volume of cross-border trade increased during this period in the Russian-Finnish and Russian-Estonian sections of the border (due to an increase in the volume of exports of nickel matte and mineral fertilizers). The changes in the commodity structure of cross-border trade that took place in 2013–2019 indicate the consolidation of the existing specialization of Russian border regions as suppliers of raw materials and simple products in trade with neighboring countries (except for the republics of the former USSR)

scholarly journals Effects of the Informal Cross Border Trade in Western Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Ahmodu Tijani Ismail Shola ◽  
Dosunmu Kazeem Olanrewaju
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
The Unemployed

Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) plays an important role in developing countries and act as accelerator of economic development, regional development of the borderland areas. It is a crucial coping measure for poor households; especially when unemployment is high and it also address mass poverty if the rules governing it take into consideration the interests of the poor and vulnerable groups in society. This paper is aimed at examining the effects of informal cross border trade in western Africa: a study of Nigeria and Niger, its strength and weakness on National and Regional development which is western Africa. This is a literature and library based paper which reviews related literatures from journal articles, texts, seminar papers, online search engines for assessment of the concepts. This paper perceive the following issues in  Informal Cross Border Trade, its problem and approaches, reasons for ICBT in Nigeria and Niger, critical analysis of determinants in Nigeria and Niger, the positive and negative effects on the two selected countries in western African and recommend on way forward. It finds out that ICBT enables small‐scale entrepreneurs to escape poverty and to meet the education, housing and other basic needs. It’s also source of family income to the unemployed and a source of employment to our second citizen as a result of early retirement. It recommends that there should be bilateral agreement between Nigeria and Niger on creating an enabling, gender-sensitive environment for informal cross border traders so that they can easily engage in economic activity in order to protect their livelihoods. There is need to design appropriate policy incentives by the duo country governance in order to gradually incorporate a thriving ICBT sector into the formal economy.

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