petty trading

Until the 1970s, agriculture and petty trading were the primary economic activities in the area.

He lost his father at an early age and had to engage in petty trading to supplement the family income.

The main economic activities are farming and petty trading.

For many, this means occasional school, petty trading, begging and prostitution, only returning to their homes in the evening.

A staff survey showed petty trading - raising chickens and selling the eggs, for example - to be the most common outside occupation.

Ashimi Olawale was born in 1986, the son of a carpenter father and a petty trading mother.

He kept to himself, asked nothing of others, and was as good as his word on the petty trading deals that were always going on.

Employment is largely petty trading with some semi-skilled craftsmen.

Even with these developments, the main source of livelihood for the Jews during this time was through petty trading and skilled crafts.

With certain kinds of petty trading, and even the small-scale ownership of land, the State will probably not interfere at all.

This is supplemented by petty trading by the womenfolk.

These loans enable people to set up a small business, such as small shops, animal breeding, tailoring or petty trading.

Petty trading is done by some Loko, either at a fixed shop or on motorbike, going to the smaller hamlets and villages.

They have abandoned their traditional occupation of palanquin bearing, and now involved mainly in petty trading and wage labour.

During the early Japanese Occupation, he earned a living as a vegetable farmer, but decided to switch to petty trading for a better living.

It strongly counseled the abandoning of petty trading and of other uncertain sources of livelihood.

Bedes' other occupations are in the entertainment services (e.g. monkey shows, magic shows) and petty trading.

An analysis of those involved in the Jacobite disturbances shows that most came from the petty trading and artisanal classes of the towns and industrial villages.

Athenian women could enter into a contract worth less than the value of a "medimnos of barley" (a measure of grain), allowing women to engage in petty trading.

The Derg also imposed a system of travel permits to restrict peasants from engaging in non-agricultural activities, such as petty trading and migrant labor, a major form of income supplementation.

Within the country, women and children are trafficked from rural provinces to towns and mining areas for domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, and forced labor in diamond mines, petty trading, petty crime, and for forced begging.