Institutional support for collective learning: Cluster development in Kenya and Ghana

African Development Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-278

  Oyelaran oyeyinka, Banji ^a   Lal, Kaushalesh ^a  

^a UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LEARNING; MICROENTERPRISE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TRAINING;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; GHANA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33750896677     PISSN: 10176772     EISSN: 14678268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2006.00142.x     Document Type: Article

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