Enhancing competitiveness and securing equitable development: Can small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do the trick?

Development in Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 463-474

  Jeppesen, Soeren ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; MICROENTERPRISE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 21844434017     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09614520500076100     Document Type: Article

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