Street Food Vendors: Livelihood Enhancement
| In this study, we focus on street food vendors who play an important role in providing nutrition to the informal sector. Previous studies have shown that street food is the cheapest and most nutritious food that can be obtained outside home; a typical meal of 500 grams at the cost of 0.25 dollars can provide up to 1000 calories with 20-30 grams of protein, 12-15 grams of fat and 174-183 grams of carbohydrates. Thus, even though street food vendors play an important role in urban spaces, there exist few studies of their economic opportunities, why they choose to locate where they did, and the kind of legislation and policy support that such micro-entrepreneurs need. The absence of a favorable vending policy generates opportunistic behavior including extortion from other urban stakeholders, diminished profitability, and, given the large presence of women hawkers, gender exploitation. The National Policy on Urban Street Vendors 2009 provides for large-scale reform of street hawker policy, but this is yet to be implemented. Following are the objectives: To understand location choice of street food vendors To understand the service quality from their perspective To understand difficulties in meeting with benchmark quality Action research on improvement of service quality |
Project Team
Gopal Naik and Arnab Mukherjee
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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
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Street Food Vendors: Livelihood Enhancement
| Project Team: | Gopal Naik and Arnab Mukherjee | |
| Sponsor: | Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
| Project Status: | Ongoing (Initiated in 2012 | |
| Area: | Economics & Social Science | |
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