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Informal workers in Ghana’s chop bars get no benefit from foreign aid: donors are getting it wrong

By Matteo Rizzo, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London

Informal street food caterers, popularly known as chop bars, are a key feature of Ghanaian city life. They offer the urban poor the cheapest food.

A 2016 survey by the Food and Agriculture Organization estimated there were about 3,300 chop bars in the capital, Accra, employing almost 4,300 workers. This figure is likely to be much higher now due to rapid urban growth in the last decade. Ghana’s…

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