Parents buy school textbooks from street vendors. Encouraging street vending as part of Covid-19 recovery makes sense for many reasons. SEE ALSO: Opening churches: Bishops fault cap on faithfulMany development programmes in low-income countries from the 1950s through the early 2000s sought to eradicate street vending. Local governments often took aggressive actions to remove street vendors from public spaces. As one example, since 2003 it has been illegal to remove street vendors from public spaces in Colombia without offering them compensation or guaranteed income-support programmes.

Source: Standard Digital July 16, 2020 06:33 UTC