Industrial District or Garment Ghetto? Nairobi’s mini-manufacturers

Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 109-130

  McCormick, Dorothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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EID: 85070992667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203988114-10     Document Type: Chapter

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