Street Vendors & Market Traders

“The Poor Also Must Live!” Market Demolition, Gentrification and the Quest for Survival in Lagos State

Report on demolition of traditional open markets, as part of the State government programme to develop Lagos into a “mega city”. This...

Women Street Vendors: The Road to Recognition

SEEDS, No. 20

Comercio ambulante en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment

Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53

Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

This paper provides an analysis of government budgets related to specific groups of informal workers in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the...

Chapter 4 – From Street to Informal Shopping Concourse: Urban Design Solutions

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,...

The Informal Sector in Ghana

Overview of the informal sector in Ghana, with a focus on domestic workers, street vendors, and head porters

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedoras e vendedores ambulantes em Nakuru, Quênia