Street Vendors & Market Traders

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforum

Street vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood...

Street vendors, and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economyInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Street vendors, and postmodernity: conflict and compromise in the global economy International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy In...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis: Greater Monrovia

Street Vendors in Asia: A Review

This paper aims to review recent research on street vendors in Asia with the purpose of assessing the magnitude of street vending in different...

Integrating the Informal Economy in Urban Planning and Governance: A Case Study of the Process of Policy Development in Durban, South Africa

Urban Planning for the Working Poor

Background Note for the HABITAT Jam, December 1-4, 2005

A Census of Street Vendors in eThekwini Municipality

Street vending in urban India: The struggle for recognition

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Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

This paper considers whether national and local government budgets in the Philippines make a difference to informal economy workers – particularly...