Identity economics: Social networks & the informal economy in Nigeria

Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-208

  Meagher, Kate ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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