Street Vendors & Market Traders

Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai

Why the Poor Need Property Rights

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

Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Case Study of Street Trading in South Africa

IFP/SEED Working Paper No. 36. Geneva, ILO, 2002.

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Health and Sanitation is an Economic Right as Well–Just Ask Ghanaian Food Sellers

WIEGO Researcher Laura Alfers investigates the chop bar owners of Accra. Whereas governments are quick to scapegoat them for diseases borne...

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.  

A Report on Street Vending in Ghana

Overview of regulatory issues concerning street vendors in Ghana