The city has a chequered history of managing informal traders. In October 2025, Johannesburg authorities removed informal traders from De Villiers Street in the heart of the city’s central business ...

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The informal economy is a global and pervasive phenomenon. Some 60 percent of the world’s population participates in the informal sector. Although mostly prevalent in emerging and developing economies ...

Mike Rogan is a research associate in the Urban Policies Programme of WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing). Lots was said and resolved during the job summit. But not enough ...

Nicole Gurran receives funding from the University of Sydney's Policy Lab (which funded the research described in this article), and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Madeleine Pill ...

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