Occupational Group: Street Vendors & Market Traders

Hawkers and the Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Street Vending in Seven Cities

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the problems of street vendors in urban areas. The study discusses the profession...

The Welfare Fund Model of Social Security for Informal Sector Workers: The Kerala Experience

CDS Working Paper, No. 332

Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries

This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,...

Chapter 5 – Tackling Urban Management Issues: A Cooperative Effort

A Crise Econômica Global e a Economia Informal – Ficha informativa

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Nakuru, Kenya

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide in-depth understanding of how informal workers are affected by and respond...

Vending in Public Space: The Case of Bangkok

This brief reviews cultural, economic, political and other broad social foundations of vending in Bangkok’s public space. It also examines...

Nothing about us without us: A case study of the dynamics of the informal workplace in Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre

This research paper is part of the Development and Labour Monograph Series.

Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforum

Street vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood...

Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...