Street Vendors & Market Traders

Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor

The chapters in this book analyse different types of membership based organizations of the poor (MBOP). The book is characterised by a conviction...

Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade

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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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“Glocal” Movements: Place Struggles and Transnational Organizing by Informal Workers

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India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...

Durban Workers Unite to Defend Street Traders’ Livelihoods’

Enfrentando a Crise: Recessão Persistente,Inflação Crescente, e a Força de Trabalho Informal (Sumário Executivo)

Report available in English here. Relatório disponível em português aqui. Informe disponible en español aquí.  

Formal Versus Informal Allocation of Land in a Commons: The Case of the Macarthur Park Sidewalk Vendors

Analyzing patterns of formal and informal property rights among sidewalk vendors in the United States.

Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...