Street Vendors & Market Traders

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

Chapter 6 – Conclusion

Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para Comerciantes e Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra e Takoradi, Gana

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By focusing on Guangzhou’s street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics...

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...

Inclusive Public Spaces for Informal Livelihoods: A Discussion Paper for Urban Planners and Policy Makers

The Discussion Paper opens with a brief overview of academic discourse and policy debates on public space. Section II presents recent statistical...

Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa

Background Paper for the World Bank’s 2005 World Development Report