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  • Worker Story

    Headstrong: Profile of a Headloader in Ahmedabad, India

    A leader among headloaders in Ahmedabad’s busy textile market, Shanta Bababahi Bhalerao knows firstand how belonging to the growing...

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  • Research Reports

    Santé et sécurité au travail pour les commerçants et les vendeurs de rue d’Accra et de Takoradi (Ghana)

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Commerce: Expansion and Exclusion in the Historic Centre of the Latin American City

    Informal commerce, characterized by market and street trading activities, thrives in the central areas of many Latin American cities. Focusing...

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  • Journal Articles

    We Need to Start Respecting Informal Workers

    In the midst of rapid urbanization, the question of whether and how to formalize the informal economy is a growing concern.

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  • Research Reports

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    “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.

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    Street vendors, and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economyInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

    Street vendors, and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economy International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy In...

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  • Resource Documents

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

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  • Journal Articles

    Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre

    Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets....

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