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Informationen zum Autor Rajesh Raj S.N is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Sikkim University, India.Kunal Sen is a Professor of Development Economics and Policy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Klappentext The Indian manufacturing sector has undergone comprehensive reforms since 1991. In spite of rapid rates of economic growth since the reforms, the informal sector has been a persistent phenomenon in India, leading to significant policy concerns on the lack of inclusivity of economic growth. This book assesses how informal manufacturing firms have responded to the context of economic liberalization in India, and provides policy recommendations on how to make India's economic growth more inclusive of the informal sector. Zusammenfassung An important feature of the recent process of structural transformation in developing countries has been that the informal sector has remained an important element of manufacturing activity. In spite of rapid rates of economic growth since the 1991 reforms, the informal sector has been a persistent phenomenon in India, leading to significant policy concerns on the lack of inclusivity of economic growth. This book assesses how informal manufacturing firms have responded to the context of economic liberalization in India. It takes a novel approach to the study of informality, by viewing it through a 'production' lens and making enterprise performance the centre-piece of the analysis of informality. The book studies the determinants of enterprise growth and performance along the entire 'continuum' of the informal sector, from micro household enterprises to larger enterprises in the informal sector employing wage labour. The strength of the book is the systematic examination of the various aspects of informality in the Indian manufacturing sector using rich firm-level data from large nationally representative surveys spanning two decades of reforms The book argues that concerted government action is needed to allow the informal sector to participate more fully in India's economic growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Title List of Tables and Figures Preface 1: Taking a 'Production Lens' to Informality in India 1: Theoretical Perspectives on the Informal Economy 1: Policy Context 1: Change and Continuity in the Indian Informal Manufacturing Sector 1: Firms in the Indian Informal Manufacturing Sector: Their Characteristics and Evolution over Time 1: The Performance of Informal Manufacturing Firms 1: The Determinants of Firm Transition 1: Globalization and Its Effects 1: Out of the Shadows? Appendix I Appendix II List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index About the Authors ...
