Browsing Working Papers by Author "Petersen, Leif"
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What price cheap goods? Survivalists, informalists and competition in the township retail grocery trade
Petersen, Leif; Thorogood, Camilla; Charman, Andrew; Du Toit, Andries (PLAAS, 2019-08-31)About 54% of South Africa’s township microenterprises trade in food or drink. More than two-thirds of these are grocery retail businesses in the form of spaza shops and smaller ‘house shops’. These are the predominant ...