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Growth and Informality in Urban Africa

The Returns to Formality and Informality in Urban Africa (Working Paper)

Working paper 1 Nov 2009 Firms

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Paolo Falco

DPhil Student, University of Oxford

Neil Rankin

Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University

Justin Sandefur

Research Fellow, Center for Global Development

Francis Teal

Reader in Economics, University of Oxford
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