Report from the field: street vendors and the informal sector in Hanoi

Lincoln, Martha

doi:10.1007/s10624-008-9062-9

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“…In the context of Doi Moi, the understanding of Hanoi informal economy suggest that such reforms have impressively increased national economic growth, but gaps between classes have widened, leading to a highly stratified society (Lincoln 2008, p. 262; for relationship/contradictions between Doi Moi and informal food traders, see Lincoln 2008).…”

Section: Hanoi Vietnammentioning

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“…The street vendors are an essential characteristic of the place; they represent the 'authenticity' and the new tourists' 'experiences.' As written already in 2008, "the recent ban on street trading is at cross purposes with the desires of many tourists themselves, who worry that the picturesque quality of Hanoi's streets will be lost if vendors are excluded" (Lloyd 2003, p. 263; see also Lincoln 2008). It is, therefore, "quite biased that the Vietnamese administration [...] says they are harmful to the beauty of the city'.…”

Section: Hanoi Food Street Vendors and Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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From Conventional to Alternative Tourism: Rebalancing Tourism towards a Community-Based Tourism Approach in Hanoi, Vietnam

Giampiccoli

Mtapuri

2021

Social Sciences

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This article proposes an alternative tourism development approach that we have termed ‘rebalancing’, which is based on tourism development adopting Community-based Tourism (CBT) principles and characteristics whose hallmark is to give local control of the tourism sector to disadvantaged members of society. The article is based on extant literature and uses Hanoi as a case study to articulate the role of CBT against a backdrop of the growth and presence of large international hotel chains in Hanoi following the adoption of the Doi Moi policy. The increase in international hotel chains poses a high risk of an increase in leakages. The accommodation sub-sector and food sector are essential in tourism in Hanoi, as they are elsewhere. These provide small businesses the opportunity to participate in the name of inclusivity, empowerment, and poverty alleviation. For the authenticity of Hanoi and respecting its traditions and values, we propose a model of growth for Hanoi that includes food street vendors alongside large international hotel chains, large national (privately owned) hotels (nationally/locally owned), small independent national hotels (locally owned), bed and breakfast/guesthouse (locally owned), backpackers (locally owned), homestay (locally owned), ‘Albergo Diffuso’ (locally owned), LCBT accommodation (locally owned), CBT (Independently owned structures under an umbrella organization), and CBT (community-owned structures). It also suggests the retention of traditional architecture for the diversity and uniqueness of Hanoi. It recommends that the government should not promulgate legislation and policies that attempt to limit the scope of food street vending but rather empower food street vendors to grow and prosper. This should be done alongside specific legislation that sets minimum standards related to hygiene on the streets for inclusive growth and poverty alleviation.

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Section: Hanoi Vietnammentioning

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Section: Hanoi Food Street Vendors and Architecturementioning

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From Conventional to Alternative Tourism: Rebalancing Tourism towards a Community-Based Tourism Approach in Hanoi, Vietnam

Giampiccoli

Mtapuri

2021

Social Sciences

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“…As an example, Lincoln (2008) reports on the Vietnamese Government's 2008 ban on some street vendors in parts of Hanoi and its consequences upon microentrepreneurs. She explains that with the banning of the street vendors there has been a significant growth in the more well-known fast food firms such as KFC, but that the fastest food on the streets of Hanoi is still in the 'form of the street vendor with her produce running from the cops' (Lincoln, 2008, p. 265).…”

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Seeking for a relevant and contextual approach to economic development, an entrepreneurship model for Africa

Jowah¹

2019

Jour. of Asia Entr. and Sust.

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Africa as a continent occupies one fifth of the earth’s land surface but possesses the largest natural resources on the earth’s surface. The continent is endowed with large deposits of coal, iron ore, asbestos, copper, gold, diamonds, uranium, emeralds, silver, chromium, cobalt, crude oil, quartz, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and platinum, to say the least. Together with this are large fresh water resources that labyrinth the continent pouring their contents into the inland lakes and oceans that surround the continent. The arable land is full of flora and fauna that attracts millions of tourists from around the world who pay large sums to see what the African takes for granted. Yet, the continent is home to millions reeling under chronic poverty, under nourished and under fed with unprecedented high levels of illiterate, unskilled, economically underdeveloped and unbankable populace. The Asian Tigers, China, India and Latin America have emerged as shining stars on the path to sustainable development, but Africa, the storehouse of natural wealth, lingers behind. This paper argues that the failure of Africa is a result of the failure of African leadership to come up with policies and programs specific to the context of the continent. Africa needs sustainable empowerment of the disadvantaged chronically poor millions that languish in poverty on the continent. The model suggests a developmental policy that uses “deliberate structures” to “deliberately empower” the indigenous African as fundamental to the economic development of the continent. Entrepreneurship as a developmental vehicle is modeled to provide in-built-solutions to the 21 causes of the failure of businesses. A model of projectised entrepreneurship using Africanized colonial resources is constructed with special emphasis on South Africa and its unique past. This will be supported deliberately by increasing start-ups at a reduced failure rate in place of perpetual handouts.

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2019

Jour. of Asia Entr. and Sust.

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Corporate entrepreneurship plays an important role in stimulating innovations and giving a competitive edge to the organization in the long run. Positive and vibrant entrepreneurial climate within the organization is one of the building blocks of corporate entrepreneurship.. This study tries to assess the perception of entrepreneurial climate amongst the employees of Indian organizations. It covers perception of the employees on 13 different parameters of entrepreneurial climate

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Report from the field: street vendors and the informal sector in Hanoi

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

From Conventional to Alternative Tourism: Rebalancing Tourism towards a Community-Based Tourism Approach in Hanoi, Vietnam

From Conventional to Alternative Tourism: Rebalancing Tourism towards a Community-Based Tourism Approach in Hanoi, Vietnam

Seeking for a relevant and contextual approach to economic development, an entrepreneurship model for Africa

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