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  • Journal Articles

    Stockbrokers turned sandwich vendors: the economic crisis and small-scale food retailing in Southeast Asia

    This paper examines narratives of the transformations in the small-scale food-retailing sector in urban Southeast Asia. The recent Asian...

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  • Research Reports

    The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city

    Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor

    The chapters in this book analyse different types of membership based organizations of the poor (MBOP). The book is characterised by a conviction...

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  • Journal Articles

    Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

    IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

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  • Journal Articles

    Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction

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  • Journal Articles

    “Glocal” Movements: Place Struggles and Transnational Organizing by Informal Workers

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  • Policy Briefs

    India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

    India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...

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  • Journal Articles

    Durban Workers Unite to Defend Street Traders’ Livelihoods’

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  • Research Reports

    Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente,Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal (Sumário Executivo)

    Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

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