Occupational Group: Street Vendors & Market Traders

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...

“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.

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By focusing on Guangzhou’s street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics...

Stockbrokers turned sandwich vendors: the economic crisis and small-scale food retailing in Southeast Asia

This paper examines narratives of the transformations in the small-scale food-retailing sector in urban Southeast Asia. The recent Asian...

Inclusive Public Spaces for Informal Livelihoods: A Discussion Paper for Urban Planners and Policy Makers

The Discussion Paper opens with a brief overview of academic discourse and policy debates on public space. Section II presents recent statistical...

Boletim WIEGO das Organizações de Base dezembro 2011

Edição de dezembro 2011

Leading the Fight for Legitimacy: Malawi Union for the Informal Sector – MUFIS

When the global economic downturn’s impact on the informal workers in Malawi went unreported and unrecognized, the Malawi Union for the Informal...

Mesa de Trabajo Municipalidad de Lima y Comerciantes Minoristas de Productos Perecibles Trabajan por Formalización y su Desarrollo Integral

An Act, signed in Lima in December 2012, between the Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima (the local government in Lima) and 24 organizations...

WIEGO MBO Newsletter April 2013

WIEGO’s April 2013 Newsletter for Membership-Based Organizations of Informal Workers   Read the newsletter in English.