Policy makers, therefore, often encounter the following questions while formulating the social security schemes. What are the priority social security needs of unorganized workers? What existing mechanisms and strategies do they use to meet the social security needs? Do social security needs and...

Abstract The literature on rural credit market has generally assumed that farm households are rationed in their access to subsidised formal credit. Due to lack of infrastructure and poor access to institutional credit, exploitation of farmers in interlocked credit market is expected to be high....

The growth of government financial institutions in India both in terms of number of branches and quantum of credit has been impressive, especially in the post-blank nationalisation period. [Working Paper No. 228]

We examine the extent of employment security faced by different occupational groups within the unorganized sector and analyse the factors influencing the same. Based on a large sample including agricultural, contruction and domestic workers in four districts in Karnataka, we find that the inter...