The economic liberalization policy initiated since the early 1991 has made large-scale delicensing of industry and changes in the industrial location policies, and thus, curtailed the role of the state as industrial owner and location regulator. With the increasing dominance of private sector in...

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...

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 present study aims to analyse the performance of the rural unorganised manufacturing in Assam in terms of number of enterprises, employment and value added, structural changes, employment elasticity, and labour productivity, both at aggregated and disaggregated industry level. The analysis...

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...