Street Vendors & Market Traders

Informal Economic Strategies: Advocacy For Street Vendors In Brazil

This paper is an introduction to informal labor; the politico-territorial characteristics of street vendor commerce in the city of Sao Paolo;...

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra, Gana

Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Vendedoras e vendedores ambulantes em Durban, na África do Sul

Location, Location, Location: The Life of a Refugee Street Barber in Durban, South Africa

Choma Choma Nalushaka made an arduous journey from war-torn Congo to South Africa—then waited years for his family to join him. He has established...

Embracing Uncertainty: Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa’s Inner City

‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...

Case studies of collective bargaining and representative forums for street traders

Here StreetNet shares a variety of case studies from around the world about street traders and collective bargaining.

Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa

Background Paper for the World Bank’s 2005 World Development Report

Displacement and the New Spaces for Informal Trade in the Latin American City Centre

Using evidence from Cusco, Peru, the paper examines the effects of the planned displacement of informal traders from city-centre streets....

A Review of Street Trade in Africa

University of Nairobi, Institute for Development Studies. A review commissioned by Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising...