food caterers, popularly known as chop bars, are a key feature of Ghanaian city life. They offer the urban poor the cheapest food. A 2016 survey by the Food and Agriculture Organization estimated there were about 3,300 chop bars in the capital, Accra, employing almost 4,300 workers. This figure is likely to be much higher now due to rapid urban growth in the last decade. Ghana’s urban population increased from 50.9% in 2010 to 56.7% in 2021. By the same year the Greater...
late 1990s, as companies in Zimbabwe have shut down and laid off workers due to the country’s economic crisis , people have resorted to the informal sector to earn a living. It is estimated that 90% of Zimbabweans now have informal sector livelihoods. Gradually, informal sector organisations emerged in response to fundamental changes in the economy, politics, and social life from the 2000s. They allowed people to network, get training in business, finance and collective bargaining,...
2 is the informal resolution for complaints of sexual misconduct. At any time after contacting the ICGS helpline, whether an individual has made a complaint or not, you can choose to take action through informal resolution. Should you wish to pursue ‘Pathway 2’, this will be referred to one of our independent investigators who is suitably qualified in informal resolution. This will not involve an investigation, unless you wish to proceed with a formal complaint. You are...
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; Is this a valid conclusion? According to formal logic, it is. Formally, an argument is valid if the conclusion follows from the premises (whether or not the premises are true) and is invalid if it does not. Thus, formal logic is only concerned with the rules for drawing conclusions from a given set of premises (Baron, 1994). It does not specify a standard for evaluating the premises themselves (except, of course, to the extent that the premises were derived as conclusions...
