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PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

STREET AND MARKET VENDORS AND HAWKERS   

General

• Women Street Vendors: the Road to Recognition by Monique Cohen, Mihir Bhatt and Pat Horn, Seeds Publication #20, 2000, (29 pages) English, PDF File

• Associations of market traders - their roles and potential for further development, Andrew W. Shepherd, Agricultural Management, Marketing and Financial Service, Agricultural Support Systems Division, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome 2005.    

By region

AFRICA

South African Development Community (SADC)

• The impact of informal cross border trade on regional integration in the SADC and implications for wealth creation John Mwaniki, IRED-ESA (The CORN Thematic Co-ordinator for Cross-Border Trade) Southern Africa Research Poverty Network (SARPN) website, http://www.sarpn.org.za

• "Street Vending in African Cities: A Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya , Cote D'Ivoire , Ghana , Zimbabwe , Uganda and South Africa", Mitullah, Winnie, 2003, Background Case Study for World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone (link to Wiego website).
  

Countries

Ghana

• SERVICES LIBERALIZATION IN THE WTO - Bleak Future for Africa’s Market Women? by Pauline Vande-Pallen, TWN-Africa, GeraLinks, (Quarterly Newsletter of the Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa Programme), Third World Network-Africa, May 2006.

Mozambique

• The organisation of informal workers from Maputo market and the promotion of a better life and working conditions. The role of the Association of Informal Workers - ASSOTSI (Mozambique) (Portuguese), ILO-Step Research Paper, 2005.

South Africa 

• Street Traders and their organisations in South Africa International Labour Organisation (ILO) 2003, (24 pages) English, PDF File

Zimbabwe

• The Economic Impact of the Clampdown on the informal economy, code named Operation Restore Order /Murambatsvina, 28 June 2005,  Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Informal Economy Desk.  

ASIA

• Street Vendors in Asia: A review, Sharit K Bhowmik, (PDF file) Published in Economic and Political Weekly, May 28-June 4, 2005.

India

• Hawkers and the urban informal sector: a study of street vending in seven cities  Prepared by Sharit K. Bhowmik for the National Alliance of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) (English) (30 pages).

Thailand

• Case Study Report - Bangkok, Thailand, “Problems and Possible Solutions for Stall Sellers and Street Vendors - The Case of Stall Sellers and Street Vendors in front of Chulalongkorn Hospital”, Rakawin Leechanavanichpan, Komsan Bodhikong, Faculty of Law, Sukhothai Dhammathirat University, Boonyarit Moongjongklang, Department of Agricultural Promotion, Sukhothai Dhammathirat University, Commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission, Thailand, 2006.

INFORMAL ECONOMY

General

• ILO Resolution Concerning Decent Work and the Informal Economy, 2002 (PDF Acrobat)

• Is "Place of work" a pertinent and efficient question to better measure and understand the category of homeworkers, and more generally, outworkers, in the labour force? Geneva - Report on Expert Group Meeting on the Measurement of Place of Work. Charmes, Jacques, 2000 (PDF, link to WIEGO website).

• Organizing Informal Women Workers by Dan Gallin (Global Labour Institute) and Pat Horn, (Co-ordinator StreetNet International), 2005.

• Organizing in the Global Informal Economy, by Dan Gallin, Global Labour Institute, Bogaziçi University Social Policy Forum: Changing Role of Unions in the Contemporary World of Labour, Istanbul, November 26-27, 2004 

• Progress of the world’s women 2005: women, work & poverty, UNIFEM (PDF), 2006 The report makes the case for an increased focus on women’s informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women’s economic security.

• Rethinking the informal economy: Linkages with the formal economy and the formal regulatory environment, by Pat Horn, Egdi and UNU-wider conference "Unlocking Human Potential, Linking the informal and formal sectors", 17-18 September, 2004, Helsinki, Finland (link to WIEGO website).

• Voice Regulation on the Informal Economy and New Forms of Work, Pat Horn, (link to Global Labour Institute website), unpublished paper.

• WIEGO ILO Conference Platform on the Informal Economy, 2002 Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A statistical picture ILO, Employment Sector, 2002, Geneva (PDF file, link to WIEGO).

By Region

AFRICA

• African women in food processing: a major but still underestimated sector of their contribution to the national economy Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (PDF, link to WIEGO website).

• Forces for Change - Informal Economy organisations in Africa, Country reports - Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa. War on Want (WoW), Workers Education Association Zambia (WEAZ), Alliance for Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA), 2006. (100 pages, PDF file) (link to War on Want website).  (2.5Mb PDF, or two 450k PDF files part 1 and part 2)

• Survival Strategies:  What lessons for engaging the New Partnership for Africa's Development(NEPAD)? by Pat Horn, StreetNet International Co-ordinator,Organising the Informal Sector:  Lessons for Labour, (Global Labour Institute, 2002)

• Socio-economic integration in Africa by Ben Turok, presented to the Southern Africa Research Poverty Network (SARPN) and Center for Civil Society workshop on "Engaging NEPAD: government and civil society speak to one another" 4th July 2002, University of Natal, Durban. 

Ghana

• Trade unions in the informal sector By Kwasi Adu-Amankwah,  Secretary-General Ghana Trades Union Congress (Labour Education No 116, ILO) (19 pages).

Namibia

• Namibia's informal economy: possibilities for Trade Union Intervention, Labour and Research Institute (LARRI), Namibia, 2006 (PDF, 68 pages).