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InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development (IFP/SED)
Job Creation and Enterprise Department

Series on Job Quality in Micro and Small Enterprise Development

International Labour Organization
Geneva

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Switzerland
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Fax: +41 (0)22 7997978
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ISBN 92-2-111853-3

First published 1999

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