Social capital or analytical liability? Social networks and African informal economies

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs

• Publication date

  2005-07-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Economics

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1471-0374.2005.00116.X
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