This paper portrays the profile of the informal sector around National Aluminium Company (NALCO), a formal sector establishment, in the economically backward state of Orissa. It is observed that though the direct backward and forward linkages of the informal sector with NALCO are negligible,...

In this paper the author has tried to redefine the concept of the informal manufacturing sector (IMS) based on two surveys done in 1985 and 1994 in Sambalpur, Orissa. In the benchmark study (1985), size of the unit was used as the first-order condition for demarcating the informal sector, while...

There have been dramatic changes in the world since 1990. Among all the changes, the transition from a command economy to a market economy has been one of the most important peace events of the 1990s. The developments after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet...