The unorganized sector plays important role in creating gainful employment opportunities, especially in developing countries, which are, in general, labour abundant. The Eleventh Five Year Plan has emphasized that the unorganized manufacturing sector holds the promise of vast employment...

The aim of this paper is to examine the recent employment trends in the unorganised rural non-farm enterprises (URNFEs) in Assam. The analysis based on the National Sample Survey (NSS) 67th and 73rd quinquennial rounds of enterprise survey data reveals that there has been an absolute decline in...

The paper analyses the growth in employment in the urban informal non-farm enterprises (INFEs) in the northeastern state of Assam during the first half of the second decade of the 21st century. The findings of the paper has brought out that employment in the urban INFEs has been growing...

Industrial diversification continues to be an important policy goal in regional planning, because of its direct positive effect on economic growth and stability. A large number of studies in India, carried out at different geographical scales namely, national level, states, and districts show...

This paper examines the structure and diversification of informal manufacturing sector across Indian states. Using the National Sample Survey “quinquennial” rounds on unorganised manufacturing enterprises in India for the years 1994-95, 2005-06, and 2010-11 we have analysed the industrial...

The objective of the present paper has been to analyse the performance of the rural unorganised manufacturing sector in Assam in the post-reforms period. Using the National Sample Survey Organisation's ‘quinquennial' rounds on unorganised manufacturing sector for the years 1994-95, 2000-01,...

The present paper examines the performance of the urban informal manufacturing sector in Assam in the post-reforms period. The structure and growth of the sector has been examined by types of enterprises and two-digit industry groups in terms of number of enterprises, number of workers, and...

The objective of this paper is to examine the intra-state concentration of unorganised manufacturing enterprises in India. Using district-level data for 16 major states of India for the period 1994-95 to 2005-06, we find clear evidence for spatial concentration of unorganised manufacturing...