Traders on the run: Activities of street vendors in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

References

• Amin , S. 1996 . The challenge of globalisation . Review of International Political Economy , 3 : 2216 – 2259 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anjaria , J.S. 2006 . Street hawkers and public space in Mumbai . Economic and Political Weekly , 27 May 2006 : 2140 – 2146 .
   Google Scholar
• Anyima-Ackah , J. 2005 . AMA versus traders and hawkers – What questions are raised? The Ghanaian Times 31 August 2005 .
   Google Scholar
• Austin , R. 1994 . An honest living. Street vendors, municipal regulation and the black public sphere . The Yale Law Journal , 103 ( 8 ) : 2119 – 2131 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bhowmik , S.K. 2005 . Street vendors in Asia: A review . Economic and Political Weekly 28 May – 4 June 2005 .
   Google Scholar
• Bromley , R.D.F. 1998 . Informal commerce: Expansion and exclusion in the historic centre of the Latin American city . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 22 ( 2 ) : 245 – 263 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Charmes , J. 1989 . 35 Years of National Accounts of Informal Sector in Burkina Faso: 1954-1989. Lessons of an Experience and Perspectives for Improveement . Ministry of Planning and Co-operation, UNDP-DTCD (United Nations Development Programme – Department of Technical Cooperation for Development) , Ouagadougou .
   Google Scholar
• Clark , G. 1994 . Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Women , Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Cornwall , J.R. 1998 . The entrepreneur as a building block for community . Journal of Development Entrepreneurship , 3 : 141 – 148 .
   Google Scholar
• Cross , C.J. 1998 . Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City , Standford, CA : Stanford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Cross , C.J. 2000 . Street vendors, and postmodernity: Conflicts and compromise in the global economy . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy , 21 ( 1-2 ) : 29 – 51 .
   Google Scholar
• de Soto , H. 1989 . The Other Path: The Invisible Revelation in the Third World , New York : Harper and Row .
   Google Scholar
• Dickson , K.B. 1969 . A Historical Geography of Ghana , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Donkor , S. 2005 . Security men chase away traders . Daily Graphic 27 August 2005 .
   Google Scholar
• Elwood , S.A. and Martin , D.G. 2000 . Placing interviews: Location and scales of power in qualitative research . Professional Geographer , 52 ( 4 ) : 649 – 657 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• GSS (Ghana Statistical Service) . 2000 . Ghana Population and Housing Census . Ghana Statistical Service , Accra .
   Google Scholar
• GSS (Ghana Statistical Service) . 2007 . Poverty Trends in Ghana . Ghana Statistical Service , Accra .
   Google Scholar
• Gyamfi , R. 2000 . Street trading in Accra . Daily Graphic , 28 March 2000 : 7
   Google Scholar
• Hart , J.K. 1970 . Small-scale enterprises in Ghana and development planning . Journal of Development Studies , 6 ( 4 ) : 104 – 120 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hart , K. 1973 . Informal income opportunities and urban employment in Ghana . Journal of Modern African Studies , 2 ( 1 ) : 61 – 89 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hays-Mitchell , M. 1994 . Street vending in Peruvian cities: The spatio-temporal behaviour of ambulantes . Professional Geographer , 46 ( 4 ) : 425 – 438 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Iyenda , G. 2005 . Street enterprise, urban livelihoods and poverty in Kinshasa . Environment and Urbanisation , 17 ( 2 ) : 55 – 67 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jimu , I.M. 2005 . Negotiated economic opportunity and power: Perspectives and perceptions of street vending in urban Malawi . Africa Development , 30 ( 4 ) : 35 – 51 .
   Google Scholar
• May , A. 2005 . Handshops and hope: Young street vendors in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania . Anthropology of Work Review , 17 ( 1-2 ) : 25 – 34 .
   Google Scholar
• Mead , D.C. and Morrison , C. 1996 . The informal sector elephant . World Development , 24 ( 10 ) : 1611 – 1619 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mitullah , W.V. 2003 . Street Vending in Africa Cities: Synthesis of Empirical Findings from Kenya, Cote d'Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa , Ivoire, Washington DC : World Bank .
   Google Scholar
• Nduna , J.N. 1990 . The struggles for survival of street traders in Umtata, Transkei, 1980–89 . GeoJournal , 22 ( 3 ) : 315 – 319 .
   Google Scholar
• Neck , P.A. & Nelson , R.E. 1987 . Small Enterprise Development: Policies and Programmes . Management Development Series No. 14 . International Labour Office , Geneva .
   Google Scholar
• Nunoo , C. 2005 . Ejection of squatters and hawkers – Where lies the political will? Daily Graphic 8 August 2005 .
   Google Scholar
• Overå , R. 2007 . When men do women's work: Structural adjustment, unemployment and changing gender relations in the informal economy of Accra, Ghana . Journal of Modern African Studies , 45 ( 4 ) : 539 – 563 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Oyefara , J.K. 2005 . Family background, sexual behaviour, and HIV/AIDS vulnerability of female street hawkers in Lagos metropolis, Nigeria . International Social Science Journal , 57 ( 186 ) : 687 – 698 .
   Google Scholar
• Peattie , L. 1984 . Comments . Regional Development Dialogue , 5 ( 2 ) : 179 – 180 .
   Google Scholar
• Robertson , C.C. 1983 . The death of Makola and other tragedies: Male strategies against a female-dominated system . Canadian Journal of African Studies , 17 ( 3 ) : 469 – 495 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stewart , D.J. 1999 . Changing Cairo: The political economy of urban form . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 23 : 128 – 146 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Teltscher , S. 1994 . Small trade and the world economy: Informal vendors in Quito, Ecuador . Economic Geography , 70 ( 2 ) : 167 – 187 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tola Olu Pearce , Olufemi , O. Kujore & Aina Agboh-Bankole , V. 1988 . Generating an income in the urban environment: The experience of street food vendors in Ile-Ife, Nigeria . Africa 58 ( 4 ), 385 – 400 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tripp , A.M. 1997 . Challenging the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania , University of California Press, Berkeley .
   Google Scholar
• Yankson , P.W.K. 2007 . Street trading and environmental management in Central Accra: Decentralisation and metropolitan governance in Ghana . Research Review NS , 23 ( 1 ) : 37 – 55 .
   Google Scholar
• Yeboah , I.E.A. 1998 . What's informal about the informal sector? Culture and the construction of development in sub-Saharan Africa . East African Geographical Review , 20 ( 1 ) : 1 – 10 .
   Google Scholar