Street Vendors & Market Traders

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

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Nakuru’s Street Vendors: Realities & Recommendations

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Lima, Peru

Budgeting and the Informal Economy in Durban, South Africa

In 2014, 18 per cent of people employed in KwaZulu-Natal worked in an informal enterprise. In 2014/15, eThekwini’s budget was R38.8 billion...

WIEGO Research – Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy: Street Vendors

Street Vendors and Cities

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

Street Vendors and the Contestation of Public Space

From the book- “This study attempts to capture a time of rapid political and urban change in the city at large, and more specifically...

Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space, and Livelihoods in Developing Cities

Abstract: