This research tries to look into lives and livelihoods of the urban poor. Varanasi city in India was chosen as the context for this study. The manifested livelihood activities of the urban poor are mere epitome of factors in the backdrop, which shapes their livelihoods, the way they are. These...

Promoting Business Incubators (BI) in Universities can go a long way in promoting entrepreneurial opportunities for students, graduates, faculty members and researchers. Also, this may give an opportunity for other private enterprises/ entrepreneurs to set up an enterprise utilising patented...

Being the second-largest natural rubber producing state in India, in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura, there exists a great potential for the development of manufacturing activities related to rubber at Tripura. As of now, the industry is in the initial stage and is struggling. To...

This paper aims to listen and understand the voices of the self-employed workers of a shrinking traditional iron kitchen utensil making microenterprise cluster based at Patardih village of Deoghar district in state of Jharkhand in India. The point of view of these self-employed workers have been...

This paper tries to draw attention on the increasing urbanisation trend in India. It tries to highlight that though presently, in absolute terms, the urban population is relatively much lesser than the rural population, still we cannot afford to overlook the shifting rural to urban population...

Urban poor households have limited resources (the tangible and intangible assets), which helps them make a living and fight against odds, they face. Addiction (substance abuse) is one such problem which is widely prevalent in urban poor households. In this paper an attempt has been made to...

This study attempts to understand and analyse the livelihoods of urban poor in the city of Varanasi, through looking into: livelihood activities undertaken by the urban poor households; possessions of the urban poor households (their asset; both tangible and intangible)? What threatens their...

The traditional artisanal clusters are dwindling, which, if turned around, could provide meaningful employment at the rural level. This paper aims to listen to the voices of self-employed artisans (microentrepreneurs) of a traditional village-based microenterprise artisanal cluster manufacturing...