Street Vendors & Market Traders

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedoras e vendedores ambulantes em Durban, na África do Sul

Location, Location, Location: The Life of a Refugee Street Barber in Durban, South Africa

Choma Choma Nalushaka made an arduous journey from war-torn Congo to South Africa—then waited years for his family to join him. He has established...

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...

The Making of “World-Class” Delhi: Relations Between Street Hawkers and the New Middle Class.Antipode

Urban India is undergoing transformation as formal electoral politics increasingly favors the new middle class. Scholarship tends to compartmentalize...

Street Vending: Politics and Possibilities for Inclusion Street Vendors & Engagement with the State

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

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,...

People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction

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Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa

IFP/SEED Working Paper No. 36. Geneva, ILO, 2002.