Rethinking Microentrepreneurship and Business Development Programs: Vulnerability and Ambition in Low-income Urban Caribbean Households

World Development

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-70

  Verrest, Hebe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Urban livelihoods

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ENTREPRENEUR; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MICROECONOMICS; MICROFINANCE; POVERTY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN PLANNING;

SURINAME; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 84877153825     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.02.016     Document Type: Article

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