Promotion of the urban informal sector has become the new strategy of development in the developing economies. This … that of the formal sector. The major strengths of this sector are its low capital requirement, higher employment generation … the basis of industrial activities, employment size, capital base, pattern of linkages, and productivity levels and, (ii …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale and attempts to understand gains accruing to … individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …

claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …

labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative … manufacturing earned on average 40% less than male workers. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the total gender wage gap in … same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal …

different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …