East african micro-enterprises: The negotiation of their labour, gender and rural-urban relations

Development Economics and Social Justice: Essays in Honour of Ian Livingstone

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 208-218

  Pedersen, Poul Ove ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

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