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Street Vendors & Market Traders

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Organising Street Vendors: “Gente de Confiar” Radio Progamme, Lima, Peru

    An authentically democratic community requires open channels of communication between citizens. Street markets offer a natural setting for...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

    This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...

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  • Research Reports

    Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Accra’s Street & Market Vendors: Realities & Recommendations

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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo Vendedoras Ambulantes em Ahmedabad, na Índia

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  • Journal Articles

    When men do women’s work: structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, GhanaThe Journal of Modern African Studies

    Abstract: Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of...

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  • Journal Articles

    A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy?

    Normative approaches to urban governance and planning and idealised visions of city space too often result in relocation or forced eviction...

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  • City/Country Level Reports

    Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

    This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

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  • Research Reports

    Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities

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  • Journal Articles

    The Struggle for the Streets: Processes of Exclusion and Inclusion of Street Traders in Durban, South Africa

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