Street Vending In African Cities: A Synthesis Of Empirical Finding From Kenya, Cote D'ivoire, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda And South Africa
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Date
2003Author
Mitullah, Winnie V
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Working PaperLanguage
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This report is a synthesis of
six case studies on street vendi
ng in Africa. The case studies
re drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Gh
ana, Cote D'Ivoire and South Africa.
The synthesis of the case studies arose out
of a World Bank invitation to Women In
Employment Globalising and Organising [WIE
GO] to contribute to its forthcoming
World Development Report [WDR] focusing
on the theme `Investment Climate'. The
main interest of the World Bank is the assessm
ent of constraints to
business growth in the
informal economy. Those working in the in
formal economy work in unregulated and
unprotected environments that
are not conducive to business. The synthesis of the six
case studies assesses the bus
iness/environment constraint
s for street vendors and the
responses made by various stakeholders including the vendors themselves.
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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/9211/WDR2005_0027.pdf?sequence=1http://hdl.handle.net/11295/38735
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Background Paper for the 2005 World Development ReportPublisher
Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi