Heading households and heading businesses: Rural kenyan women in the informal sector

Professional Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 192-204

  Aspaas, Helen Ruth ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal sector; Intra household economics; Kenya; Small scale businesses; Women headed households

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001462942     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00114     Document Type: Article

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