Street Vendors & Market Traders

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

Clandestine Geometries: Mapping Street Vending in Downtown São Paulo

Seen but not heard: Urban voice and citizenship for street traders

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Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers

WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana

The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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

Street Vendors in the Urban EconomyIndia International Centre Quarterly

In most Indian cities the urban poor survive by working in the informal economy. Poverty and lack of gainful employment in the rural areas...

The Right to Work on the Street: Public Space and Constitutional Rights.Planning Theory

Do people have a right to work on the street? If so, what are the constraints and conditions attached to this right? Historically, municipal...