All posts in Street Vendors & Market Traders
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Research Reports
Claiming the Streets: Property Rights and Legal Empowerment in the Urban Informal Economy
This paper looks at the concept of law and urban development with a focus on property rights and land, exploring the potential collective...
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Journal Articles
Extending Occupational Health and Safety to Urban Street Vendors: Reflections From a Project in Durban, South Africa
Abstract: This article focuses on an action-research project which is attempting to extend occupational health and safety to a group of street...
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Journal Articles
Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly
This paper analyses the changing relations between organised women market traders and rulers in a West African context, from a distant past...
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Books & Book Chapters
Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics: Street vendors in urban India
Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced...
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Research Reports
Street Trade in Latin America: Demographic Trends, Legal Issues, and Vending Organizations in Six Cities
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Journal Articles
Sustainable Urban Livelihoods and Marketplace Social Capital: Crisis and Strategy in Petty Trade
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Research Reports
Local Government in Transition – A Gendered Analysis of Trends in Urban Policy and Practice Regarding Street Trading in Five South African Cities
Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 18
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Research Reports
Criminalising the Livelihoods of the Poor: The impact of formalising informal trading on female and migrant traders in Durban
According to the author’s of this report, the policy of the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa on informal economy, encompassing informal...
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Research Reports
Enhancing Lobbying Capacity of Women Street Vendors: The Challenges in the Kenyan Policy Environment
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Working Papers
Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries
This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,...
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