Making space for the poor: law, rights, regulation & street-trade in the 21st century

Report of quantitative data cross tabulations from 516 interviews with street traders in Dakar, Dar es Salaam and Ahmedabad. In many cities of the global south, informal employment now provides 60-80% of urban jobs. Street trade is one of the informal economy’s largest, most visible and contested do...

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Main Author: Brown, Alison (Author)
Format: Electronic Research Data
Language:English
Published: Colchester UK Data Service 2016
In:Year: 2016
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