Case studies in four cities with different legal traditions, Dar es Salaam, Ahmedabad, Durban and Dakar, draw on extensive interviews with street traders, local authorities and others, to contribute to improved policy development.
Pro-Poor Business Law? On MKURABITA and the Legal Empowerment of Tanzania's Street Vendors
(WHY) HAVE PRO-POOR POLICIES FAILED AFRICA'S WORKING POOR?
Do Micro Enterprises Benefit from the 'Doing Business' Reforms? The Case of Street-Vending in Tanzania
New Century Local Government: Commonwealth Perspectives
Democratic decentralisation through ‘conventional’ institutions of local government is facing increasing challenges, whether from financial pressures, questions of representativeness, difficult central-local relations and from a perhaps growing belief that local government has failed to realise its potential and there may be better ways of achieving societal goals. It is clear there is need to contemplate quite radical change to ensure local government becomes or remains ‘fit for purpose’.
A refugee in my own country: Evictions or property rights in the urban informal economy?
The shock of success? : the politics of mobility in Medellin's metrocables
The project examines the links between mobility, poverty reduction, social inclusion and urban integration, seeking to learn from a set of interventions fostered by the local government of Medellín, Colombia's second largest city.
Murder capital to modern miracle? : the progression of governance in Medellin, Colombia
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