Showing posts with label Informal Sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Informal Sector. Show all posts
Friday, January 21, 2022

The formal economy – and not just the informal sector – is in distress

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  Ishan Bakshi writes: Between April 2020 and September 2021, 23 per cent of India’s formal labour force availed of an advance from EPFO to ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Database of unorganised workers is a welcome step towards creating a robust social security architecture

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  The absence of credible data on the migrant workforce, the inability to identify them quickly enough, meant that little policy support cou...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

e-Shram: 70% informal workers SC, ST, OBCs

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  On India’s first centralised database of unorganised workers, e-Shram portal, more than 7.86 crore registrations have been done till date....

Understanding why the informal sector really shrank during the pandemic

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  R Nagaraj, Radhicka Kapoor write: It was not because of micro and small informal firms’ transition to formality, but because they were squ...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Are we listening to the lessons taught in the first year of Covid-19?

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  The pandemic revealed the precarious state of India’s informal sector. Localised production, trade and markets offer a better alternative ...
Monday, February 11, 2019

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Informal jobs are the new norm, not the exception We need to identify strategies to organise informal workers to increase their collecti...
Friday, October 24, 2014

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Makers of India Early in the morning, the door-bell rings. The paperwala throws the bundle of newspaper at our door-step an...

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Urban Informal Sector in India Arup Mitra The urban urban informal sector plays a crucial role in providing sources of livelihood parti...