This essay is aimed to develop an interdisciplinary review of the Latin American informal sector micro-enterprises, to identify the features which characterize them as social entities, subject of social, public policy dictated and social mediation. The characterization is necessary to identify...

Understanding and analyzing development theory as well as practice in the contemporary developing world today is incomplete without an analysis of informal sector in the urban space. With continuous and increased urbanization happening in these countries, urban informal sector has also expanded...

India got independence before 70 years. Till now India has a number of policy and acts for eradicate the poverty and eradicate the child Labour in the country. But still child Labour exists in India. This is not for India alone; Child Labour still exists in all the developing countries in the...

In order to assess the role played by policies in informal sector development the International Labour Organization initiated a series of studies on policies and their impact on the urban informal sector in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews the evidence from Zimbabwe...

This essay is aimed to develop an interdisciplinary review of the Latin American informal sector micro-enterprises, to identify the features which characterize them as social entities, subject of social, public policy dictated and social mediation. The characterization is necessary to identify...

This paper develops a theoretical model like Gupta (1993) to show the simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and open unemployment in the urban sector in a Harris-Todaro type of model of rural-urban migration. The paper shows that a wage or a price subsidy policy to the rural sector...

This paper develops a theoretical model like Gupta (1993) to show the simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and open unemployment in the urban sector in a Harris-Todaro type of model of rural-urban migration. The paper shows that a wage or a price subsidy policy to the rural sector...

The unorganized or informal sector is found to be forming an essential part of the Indian economy. The unorganized sector is found to be playing a major role in providing employment to the large populace of Indian society. About 457 million people are found to be deployed in the unorganized...