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Street vending and public policy: a global review

Ray Bromley (Department of Geography and Planning, State University of New York at Albany)

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN: 0144-333X

Article publication date: 1 February 2000

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Abstract

Provide a general contemporary overview of street vending around the world, focusing on the major issues underlying its permanence as a phenomenon, and the ambivalent attitudes displayed towards it by governments and off‐street business communities. Focuses on street vendors as an occupational group ad includes arguments for and against their existence, the impact of their geographical and economic location, and role of the government.

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Bromley, R. (2000), "Street vending and public policy: a global review", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 20 No. 1/2, pp. 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330010789052

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