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Macro-economic strategies for poverty reduction, such as the SAP and GPRSs were not adequately successful. A micro-economic focus is therefore proposed as a contemporary approach towards poverty reduction. The fact that the informal economy employs more than eighty percent of Ghana's working population suggests that improving the socio economic conditions of informal operators would mean reducing poverty for the majority of the working population. This study aimed to examine how incomes generated in the informal garage economy reflect in the socio economic well-being of informal garage operators and explore the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of informal garage enterprises that can help improve the socio-economic conditions of the operators. A descriptive study design was adopted by the study. Interview schedule and interview guide were used to collect primary data. The study found that most informal garage operators contributed a greater portion of their household income. The opportunities available for the enterprises included high access to market and supplies. High competition, job insecurity, and inadequate support from local government were some identified threats. The study recommended garage operators to develop a common fund for infrastructural development within the cluster. It also recommended collaborative support o flocal government authorities and NGOs.

The increasing of chronic diseases associated with imbalance and substantive nutritional intake witness the awakening concern among restaurant customers. Studies revealed that customers positively valued the availability of nutritional information in the full service restaurant menu. However, the extent of restaurateurs' willingness and obstacles in providing the nutritional information in restaurant menu has not been widely explored. This study empirically investigates the Malaysian full service restaurateurs' responsiveness towards providing nutritional information in the menu. Result demonstrates there is a slight disparity between the serious concerns of customers with the operators' responsiveness particularly on certain issues.

In this paper, we are proposing certain modifications of Szász-Mirakian type operators and study their approximation properties. We also give a Voronovskaya type theorem for these operators.
Keywords: Linear positive operators, Schurer type operator, Szász-Mirakian operators, Voronovskaya type theorem.

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/s13748-016-0086-0 ; In this work, we introduce a new class of functions defned on the interval-valued setting. These functions extend classical OWA operators but allow for diferent weighting vectors to handle the lower bounds and the upper bounds of the considered intervals. As a consequence, the resulting functions need not be an interval-valued aggregation function, so we study, in the case of the lexicographical order, when these operators give an interval as output and are monotone. We also discuss an illustrative example on a decision making problem in order to show the usefulness of our developments. ; Authors were supported by Project TIN2013-40765-P of the Spanish Government.

Reduplicative approaches to the incarnation attempt to avoid the charge of incoherence by employing a qua-operator that operates on an entire assertion. The main objection to this approach is that it still yields a contradiction. Recently, two new reduplicative approaches have been offered that purport to avoid contradiction, one that offers a novel analysis of negative predications and the other which prevents conjoining divine and human predicates into a meaningful sentence. In this paper, I argue that these newer approaches either fail to provide a distinctive solution or do not show whether the model is genuinely possible.