Microenterprise: Macroeconomic environment: Revisiting Kenya's informal (jua kali) sector against the background of the formal globalising economy

International Journal of Educational Development

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 417-426

  King, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GLOBALISATION; GLOBALISATION IMPACT; INFORMAL SECTOR; JUA KALI; LOCAL DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL ECONOMY; MICROENTERPRISE;

KENYA;

EID: 0030418394     PISSN: 07380593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-0593(96)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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