Differences and similarities between developing and developed countries
| Differences | Global South | Global North |
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| The informal street vending size | Many street vendors work informally | A small segment of street vendors works informally |
| Street vendors' profile | Internal rural migrants and poor/less educated people | Immigrants |
| Role of street vending sector | Stable and culturally rooted working activity | Temporary occupation or the first immigrants working activity |
| Formal economy and informal street vending relation |
| Conflict between regular and informal street vendors |
| The different aspects dealt with by the literature |
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| Differences | Global South | Global North |
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| The informal street vending size | Many street vendors work informally | A small segment of street vendors works informally |
| Street vendors' profile | Internal rural migrants and poor/less educated people | Immigrants |
| Role of street vending sector | Stable and culturally rooted working activity | Temporary occupation or the first immigrants working activity |
| Formal economy and informal street vending relation | The system of licenses The link between informal workers and the global value chains system | Conflict between regular and informal street vendors |
| The different aspects dealt with by the literature | Urban policies and the street vendors' strategies of resistance Both individual and collective strategies of resistance | Migrants street vendors' activities and the exclusion mechanisms they experience Individual strategies of resistance |
| Similarities | Global South | Global North |
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| Methodology |
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| Urban governance model |
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| Individual motives |
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| Similarities | Global South | Global North |
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| Methodology | Qualitative methods and techniques Case study research approach | |
| Urban governance model | Neoliberal and other exclusionary polices | |
| Individual motives | Survival reasons | |