Street Vendors & Market Traders

License To Sell: The Effect Of Business Registration Reform On Entrepreneurial Activity In Mexico

This paper estimates the economic effects of a recent reform that simplified business entry regulation in Mexico. The reform was introduced...

Ahmedabad’s BRT System: A Sustainable Urban Transport Panacea?Economic and Political Weekly

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the National Urban Transport Policy have given a boost to bus rapid transit systems...

Working Life of Street Vendors in MumbaiThe Indian Journal Of Labour Economics

Abstract: Street vendors in Mumbai are among the most deprived sections of the self-employed workers. This paper tries to portray the ‘working...

WIEGO Research – Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy: Street Vendors

Street Vendors and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

From protection to repression: the politics of street vending

Abstract: The political evolution of Kampala under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has profoundly affected the fortunes of the city’s...

Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre

Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets....

Street Trade in Kenya: The Contribution of Research in Policy Dialogue and Response

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, ...

Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy

Volume 5, Number 1. January – June 2011

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

Abstract: