Using the home for income-generation: The case of Kumasi, Ghana

Cities

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 417-427

  Sinai, Irit ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ghana; Home based enterprises; Housing

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; HOUSING; INCOME; URBAN ECONOMY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

GHANA; KUMASI;

EID: 0032462238     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0264-2751(98)00037-7     Document Type: Article

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