All posts in Nigeria
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Journal Articles
The dilemma of managing the challenges of street vending in public spaces: The case of Enugu City, Nigeria
Abstract: Urbanisation trend in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, is characterised by rapid urban population growth...
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Home-Based Enterprises in Urban Space: Obligation for Strategic Planning?Berkeley Planning Journal
One major manifestation of rapid urbanization and underdevelopment is the re-emergence of informal sector activities. This trend includes...
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Journal Articles
Urban Markets in Lagos, Nigeria
An emerging body of work on farmers markets and other traditional retail markets has recently come into focus among scholars concerned with...
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Journal Articles
In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs
The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...
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Journal Articles
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...
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Research Reports
“The Poor Also Must Live!” Market Demolition, Gentrification and the Quest for Survival in Lagos State
Report on demolition of traditional open markets, as part of the State government programme to develop Lagos into a “mega city”. This...
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Audiovisual Materials
The Informal Economy Driving World Business
National Public Radio (NPR) interviews Robert Neuwirth, author of “Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy.” ...
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Toolkits and Guides
Our Story Our Struggle: Lagos Tailors
This booklet emerged out of discussions in a workshop with representatives of the National Union of Tailors, Lagos. The workshop was facilitated...
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Legal Instruments
Abuja Municipal Area Council By Law, 2002
This document contains the 2002 Abuja Municipal Area Council’s by-laws relating to the prohibition of street hawking, sanitation, restaurants...
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Legal Instruments
African Commission on Human and People’s Rights- Social and Economic Rights Action Center and the Center for Economic and Social Rights v Nigeria (155/96)
/*–>*/ /*–>*/ This Court case concerned the violation of the right to livelihood of the Ogini people by the Nigerian Government....
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