What to do with the informal sector?

Development Policy Review

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 701-715

  Bigsten, Arne ^a   Kimuyu, Peter ^b   Lundvall, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INFORMAL SECTOR; MANUFACTURING;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 8744268248     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2004.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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