Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in West African Sahel
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Fragile states; Informality; Self-employment; West African Sahel;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2020-11-16 (Development)
- NEP-IUE-2020-11-16 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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