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Journal Articles
Street trade, neoliberalisation and the control of space: Nairobi’s Central Business District in the era of entrepreneurial urbanism.Journal of Eastern African Studies
The article discusses this hypothesis by examining the evolution of spatial politics on the streets of Nairobi’s Central Business District...
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Journal Articles
Stockbrokers turned sandwich vendors: the economic crisis and small-scale food retailing in Southeast Asia
This paper examines narratives of the transformations in the small-scale food-retailing sector in urban Southeast Asia. The recent Asian...
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Research Reports
The paradoxes of informalizing street trade in the Latin American city
Lissette Aliaga Linares, a WIEGO member, compares the approaches to regulating street trade in Lima & Bogota in this paper.
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Books & Book Chapters
Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment
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Journal Articles
Getting Institutions Right? Local Government and Street Traders in Four South African Cities
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Research Reports
Criminalising the Livelihoods of the Poor: The impact of formalising informal trading on female and migrant traders in Durban
According to the author’s of this report, the policy of the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa on informal economy, encompassing informal...
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Journal Articles
Community Unionism in Africa: The Case of Mozambique
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Organizing Briefs
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...
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Journal Articles
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...
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Research Reports
Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente, Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal
Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.
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