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A Future for Informal Services?:The Cycle Rickshaw Sector as Case Study

by Ashima Sood Economic and Political Weekly.October 20, 2012 A February 2010 judgment of the Delhi High Court called into question several assumptions underlying policy thinking on the cycle rickshaw sector. Examining these assumptions in the light of new research and advocacy efforts, this article considers the prospect of policy and regulatory reform. With the [...]

Subcontracting and the Size and Compositionof the Informal Sector:Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

by Ana I. Moreno-Monroy; Janneke Pieters and Abdul A. Erumban IZA Discussion Paper no.6785, August, 2012 This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal [...]

IS INDIA’S MANUFACTURING SECTOR MOVING AWAY FROM CITIES?

by Ejas Ghani; Arti grover Goswamy and William R Kerr NBER Working Paper No.17992, April 2012 This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal [...]

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