Section 1. India uninc.: dominant role in the economy -- section 2. Travails of the India uninc. -- section 3. Credit delivery to India uninc. -- section 4. Taxation and bribery -- section 5. Social security for the self employed and the role of gold -- section 6. Stock markets: role in our...

This paper evaluates critically the popular structuralist representation that those operating in the informal sector are marginalized populations working as dependent employees out of economic necessity and in the absence of alternative means of livelihood. Reporting an empirical study of 1,518...