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Small-Business Participation in the Informal Sector of an Emerging Economy

Sandra Sookram University of the West Indies, Trinidad and TobagoCorrespondence[email protected]
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Patrick Kent Watson University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Pages 1531-1553 | Accepted 01 May 2007, Published online: 20 Nov 2008

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Arielle John & Virgil Henry Storr. (2018) Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 12:5, pages 582-610.
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Carla Marques, Carmem Leal, João Ferreira & Vanessa Ratten. (2018) The formal-informal dilemma for women micro-entrepreneurs: evidence from Brazil. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 14:5, pages 665-685.
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S. Mintah & S. Darkwah. (2018) Drivers of Informal Sector Participation of Small and Medium Enterprise in Ghana. Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica 49:1, pages 60-67.
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Gorah Kassim Abdallah. (2017) Differences between firms from the formal sector and the informal sector in terms of growth. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 9:2, pages 121-143.
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