Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 514-529

  Dolan, Catherine ^a   Rajak, Dinah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; ENTREPRENEUR; INFORMAL SECTOR; POVERTY; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 84962022259     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1126249     Document Type: Article

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