DECISION OF YEREVAN MAYOR ON DISMANTLING KIOSKS TO REDUCE DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATOR – EXPERT
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Aug 23, 2011
Armenia
YEREVAN. – Decision of Yerevan city mayor to dismantle kiosks and
ban street trade in Yerevan will bring to reduction of demographic
indicator of the city, said demographer Ruben Yeganyan to a press
conference on Tuesday.
Yeganyan argues that this decision will entail negative consequences
both in the context of demography and emigration.
“I would love to see our country developed and people practicing high
level of living standards, so that we would not have street trade
and kiosks on the streets of our capital. But we have to compare the
desirable with the reality. Do we have the necessary recourses to go
for this? Before making these kinds of decisions, city authorities
should have come up with corresponding offers for employment. It is
elementary that some of the people previously engaged in street trade
or running kiosks should leave the country,” said the expert. ‘~QOf
course there were people among them who were planning to get married,
to have children but it is only natural that they will not go for it,
deprived of livelihood. I do not rule out that once in grave social
conditions, certain families should come apart. I wonder did anybody
give a thought about all this before signing these documents.”