Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84519 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
DIIS Working Paper No. 2005:12
Publisher: 
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
Since the famous ILO report on the informal sector in Kenya was published in 1972 the smallscale enterprises have been recognised to play an important role in the Kenyan economy as in other African countries. However, although often more than half of all the small enterprises are traders. Most small enterprise policies have focussed almost entirely on the small scale producers. The small-scale traders have generally been seen as unproductive activities with no positive role to play in development, a sign of poverty, although they are responsible for a large share of the national distribution system. The paper attempts to look at this paradox and investigate the role of the small scale traders in the small enterprise sector and in the development process.
ISBN: 
8776050866
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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