About 88 percent of India's total labor force is composed of informal (officially labeled “unorganized”) workers. As many as 388 million such workers lack old age income security by way of a pension system. The Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is the latest contributory, national-level old age...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is the empirical measurement and analysis of economic size and performance of dispersed and clustered small-scale enterprises (SSEs) in India. Design/methodology/approach – Methodology is descriptive and comparative, using a combination of different...

This paper distinguishes the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) sector to economic development by manufacturing and service activities in Karnataka State. Using the available data in the national and State income accounts, the contribution of manufacturing ICT...

First, the expert contributors argue, Asia must find ways to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of less favorable demographics, which implies slower growth of the workforce. Second, they contend, Asia must find ways to deliver affordable, adequate, and sustainable old-age economic...

This article develops a simple methodology for calculation of growth effects of industrial clusters at national level and estimates the economic determinants of the clusters’ size-class of production by using data on 354 individual industrial clusters in India. Gross value of industrial...

Using the Pareto distribution, this paper estimates the size distribution of metropolitan areas in India from 1981 through 2025. Empirical results offer evidence for dispersion of metropolitan population size, notwithstanding the growing concentration of urban population in metropolitan areas as...