The informal sector elephant

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1611-1619

  Mead, Donald C ^a   Morrisson, Christian ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL APPROACH; DATA RELIABILITY; INFORMAL SECTOR; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMALL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 0030434736     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(96)00065-4     Document Type: Article

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