While discussing on development of India, the informal sector assumes importance due to its large size in terms of workforce engaged within it. In addition, it is also viewed as a pool of excluded ‘surplus population'. Given this context, we intend to place the informal sector within a...

The vast informal sector of the developing world in general and of India in particular is increasingly considered as a ¡®dispersed development engine¡¯ by the orthodox schools. It is also argued, though sizeable portion of informal sector exists independent of formal sector, a large segment...