Accommodating informal economic units in the urban built environment: Petty commodity enterprises in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Third World Planning Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 313-334

  Yankson, Paul W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; INFORMAL SECTOR; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; URBAN ECONOMY;

ACCRA; GHANA;

EID: 0034454421     PISSN: 01427849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/twpr.22.3.p4507l68258554v1     Document Type: Article

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