Social capital or analytical liability? Social networks and African informal economies

Global Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 217-238

  Meagher, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GENDER; GLOBALIZATION; INFORMAL ECONOMY; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; INFORMAL SECTOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21644469856     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2005.00116.x     Document Type: Review

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