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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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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

    From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Ambulantes e Direito à Cidade

    Street Vendors and the Right to the City is also available in English.

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  • Journal Articles

    “We Are Good at Surviving”: Street Hustling in Addis Ababa’s Inner CityUrban Forum

    Abstract: Recent studies of the informal economy have tried to understand how the politics of informal actors and their attempts at organizing...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

    Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    “The Poor Also Must Live!” Market Demolition, Gentrification and the Quest for Survival in Lagos State

    Report on demolition of traditional open markets, as part of the State government programme to develop Lagos into a “mega city”. This...

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  • Journal Articles

    Street Vending and Public Policy: A Global Review

    This journal article provides a general contemporary overview of street vending around the world, with a focus on “the major issues...

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  • Research Reports

    A Review of Street Trade in Africa

    University of Nairobi, Institute for Development Studies. A review commissioned by Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising...

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  • Global Reports

    No Cushion to Fall Back On – Executive Summary

    Report available in English here.Informe disponible en español aquí.Fact Sheet available in English here.Ficha Técnica disponible en español...

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  • Journal Articles

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

    Abstract:

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