Street Vendors & Market Traders

Enhancing Lobbying Capacity of Women Street Vendors: The Challenges in the Kenyan Policy Environment

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Work and Economic Security in the 21st Century: What Can We Learn From Ela Bhatt?

This paper is the result of research on SEWA including an interview with Ela Bhatt, conducted by Edward Webster, Professor Emeritus at the...

The Regularization of Street Vending in Bhubaneshwar, India: A Policy Model

After years of conflict between street traders and local authorities, the city of Bhubaneshwar, India developed a public, private and community...

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

This report proposes a a number of policies to help address the existing vulnerabilities of workers in the informal economy and minimize...

Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

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...

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...

Claiming the Streets: Property Rights and Legal Empowerment in the Urban Informal Economy

This paper looks at the concept of law and urban development with a focus on property rights and land, exploring the potential collective...

Eking out a living: the livelihood implications of urban space regulation on street hawking in Accra, Ghana

Abstract: Street hawking as a source of livelihood across the developing world has often raised a lot of concerns regarding hygiene, slum,...

Urban Markets in Lagos, Nigeria

An emerging body of work on farmers markets and other traditional retail markets has recently come into focus among scholars concerned with...