Creating urban social capital: Some evidence from informal traders in Nairobi

Urban Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1077-1097

  Lyons, Michal ^a   Snoxell, Simon ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Infrastructure Canada ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SECTOR; KINSHIP; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 22144456023     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980500120865     Document Type: Article

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