Street Vendors in Bolivia Are Very Common but Technically Illegal

question 41

Multiple Choice

Street vendors in Bolivia are very common but technically illegal. They often remain in poverty, despite working hard to sell their wares. What does anthropologist Daniel Goldstein suggest as a cause of their continued poverty?

• A) inconsistencies in the enforcement of laws among the urban poor
• B) a lack of transportation infrastructure that adversely affects the poor
• C) the high cost of vendor licenses due to corruption
• D) the outsourcing of labor to other countries

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