Urban Planning and Design

Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana

Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,...

Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...

Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors’ Struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center

Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies,...

Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

Perceptions of Costs and Benefits of Informal-Formal Linkages: Market and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

  This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Labour in Urban Areas

Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

Street Trade in Africa: A Review

Despite the advances in modern retailing, millions of people throughout the world still make their living partly or wholly through selling...

Análise do Orçamento Público Diretamente Destinado a Alguns Setores da Economia Informal no Brasil