Integrating Home-Based Enterprises in Urban Planning: A Case for Providing Economic Succour for Women of Global South.
A major challenge of urbanization in the global South has been the unemployment-led informal economy that has grown beyond the capacity of African governments in general and urban planners in particular. The socio-cultural status of women, and other inequalities in largely patriarchal African societ...
| Publicado en: | Berkeley Planning Journal Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 82 - 102 |
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