Traders on the run: Activities of street vendors in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-202

  Asiedu, Alex ^a   Agyei Mensah, Samuel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accra Metropolitan Area; Poverty; Street vendors

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; METROPOLITAN AREA; POVERTY DETERMINANT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ACCRA; AFRICA; ASHANTI; CENTRAL REGION [GHANA]; EASTERN REGION [GHANA]; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 52349101067     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: 15025292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950802335806     Document Type: Article

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