Street vendors banned in Hanoi... kinda
This from late last month, forgot to post at the time - street vendors banned from Hanoi's thoroughfares - interesting factoid in the article;
According to the Asian Development Bank project, Making Markets Work Better for the Poor, an estimated 5,000 mobile vendors – mostly women - operate in the city centre.
But, what of the impact ont he folks doing the selling? All a bit unclear,
From 1 July, Lan will no longer be able to sell her packets of sticky rice in the city because street vendors will be banned from commercial streets. Lan says her family will starve.
"We will all go hungry," Lan says. "We are poor people. We have no land. We are dependent upon the street."
Mobile vendors have been an integral part of Hanoi's street life for centuries. Women in conical straw hats, balancing twin baskets suspended from bamboo poles, are one of the city's most enduring images...
...But not everyone sees the ban as spelling the vendors' demise. The status of Hanoi's street hawkers is very murky, says Paule Moustier, a food marketing researcher with CIRAD, the French institute that studies agriculture in Asia. One regulation calls it illegal and another one taxes it with the Green Ticket.
So has the latest law on street vendors crawling the streets of Hanoi had any impact? Not according to the latest snaps coming in from Flickr.
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