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, By restrictive approach to street trading, I mean an approach framed by the intention to severely limit the number of traders allowed to trade on the streets, as opposed to an approach aiming at accommodating existing street traders as much as possible. It implies fixing an arbitrary number of legal street trading sites (that is presented as fixed but in reality is being contested and keeps shifting), independently of the number of existing street traders -rather than starting from an assessment of reality (based on a census for instance) and looking into how to accommodate (in different ways

, Author, in press) how MTC has in practice developed (functional but opaque) informal instruments to manage inner city street traders, in the absence of an official recognition of their existence in MTC's mandate

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