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Everyday entrepreneurship in poverty: a focus on the networks of the developing world

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Slums are singled out as ‘outposts’ of inescapable clutches of poverty. This widely held assumption overlooks everyday entrepreneurship in slum–based networks of donated community asset vouchers (CAVs). Utilising the closeness centrality literature, we examine 185,227 transactions involving 4972 slu...

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ISSN: 1863-6683 1863-6691
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