Small and medium sized enterprises in developing economies

Finance and Development: Surveys of Theory, Evidence and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 333-355

  Nixson, Frederick ^a   Cook, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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