Networks, distance, and trust: Telecommunications Development and changing trading practices in Ghana

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1301-1315

  Overå, Ragnhild ^a  

^a CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Africa; Ghana; telecommunications; traders; trust

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL POLICY; LIBERALIZATION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33745860386     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.11.015     Document Type: Article

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