Africa

Informal Sector and Employment Generation in Nigeria: An Error Correction Model

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of informal sector on employment generation in Nigeria during the period 1970 to 2010 making use...

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

This paper investigates ways in which linkages between the informal and formal segments of an economy yield benefits to, or impose costs...

Beyond urban vulnerability: interrogating the social sustainability of a livelihood in the informal economy of Nigerian cities.

Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian...

Deciphering African Informal Economies

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

Organizing Reclaimers in Tshwane, South Africa: Lessons from the Top Down and Bottom Up Experiences

Summary of WIEGO Organizing Brief 5 (English)

StreetNet Newsletter Issue 25

Street Vendors’ Laws and Legal Issues in South Africa

Street vendors have few legal protections in South Africa. As they are not employees the basic rights of labour law do not apply to them...

Empowering Market Traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa: Summary

This impact case study summary gives a preview of the work done under WIEGO’s Inclusive Cities project with market traders in Durban’s...

Eastern Metropolitan Local Council of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council Street Trading By-laws, 1998

This document contains the street trading by-laws that have been adopted by the Eastern Metropolitan Local Council.

Mossel Bay Municipality Street Trading By-laws

This by-law is promulgated by the Mossel Bay Municipality to provide for procedures, methods and practices to regulate and control street...