Case studies on street vending in six African countries (Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa) assess the business/environment constraints for street vendors. Those working in the informal economy work in unregulated and unprotected environments that are not conducive...

This paper investigates how linkages between informal and formal economic segments benefit or impose costs upon informal workers, based on self-reported relationships of market and street vendors in Accra with the formal economy and its institutions and a World Bank study of informal household...

There is a limited theoretical understanding of the importance of urban periodic markets (UPMs) for sustainable rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The Rural Web technique is used to examine the effects of UPMs on six dimensions of sustainable rural development within villages in Ghana:...