Street Vendors & Market Traders

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...

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...

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.

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Getting Institutions Right? Local Government and Street Traders in Four South African Cities

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...

Community Unionism in Africa: The Case of Mozambique

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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...

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.