Street Vendors & Market Traders

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...

A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy?

Normative approaches to urban governance and planning and idealised visions of city space too often result in relocation or forced eviction...

Addressing the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Needs of Informal Workers: Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This case study illustrates the efforts of two membership-based organizations of market traders and street vendors in the Greater Accra Metropolitan...

Bangkok’s Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations and Urban Change

Working Women in an Urban Setting: Traders, Vendors and Food Security in Accra

Policies, Regulations and Organizational Capacity of Women Street Vendors in Kenya

IDS Discussion Paper Number 299

Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction

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Disabling governance: Privatisation of city markets and implications for vendors‟ associations in Kampala, Uganda

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How to Plan a Street Trader Census

Street traders represent one of the largest and most visible segments of the informal economy, yet the actual number of street traders working...

Street Traders and their Organisations in South Africa

From the booklet, “The main aim of the research and booklet is to help build strong local and national organisations so that street...