Table 3

Differences and similarities between developing and developed countries

DifferencesGlobal SouthGlobal North
The informal street vending sizeMany street vendors work informallyA small segment of street vendors works informally
Street vendors' profileInternal rural migrants and poor/less educated peopleImmigrants
Role of street vending sectorStable and culturally rooted working activityTemporary occupation or the first immigrants working activity
Formal economy and informal street vending relation
  1. The system of licenses

  2. 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
  1. Urban policies and the street vendors' strategies of resistance

  2. Both individual and collective strategies of resistance

  1. Migrants street vendors' activities and the exclusion mechanisms they experience

  2. Individual strategies of resistance

SimilaritiesGlobal SouthGlobal North
Methodology
  • Qualitative methods and techniques

  • Case study research approach

Urban governance model
  • Neoliberal and other exclusionary polices

Individual motives
  • Survival reasons

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