Akash Dandapat

• ICSSR Doctoral Fellow
• Vidyasagar University

This chapter conducts a comprehensive examination of the influence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the manufacturing sector in India, with a particular focus on the informal manufacturing sector’s growth and expansion through subcontracting mechanisms. This analysis employs a general equilibrium approach to explore the ramifications of FDI in...

This chapter delves into the intriguing world of unorganized retail enterprises (UREs) in India, a dynamic sector that constitutes a whopping 85 percent of the nation’s retail landscape. However, the fascinating role of government assistance in nurturing the growth and vitality of UREs has remained largely unexplored territory, waiting to reveal it...

This paper examines the growth of employment and gross value added (GVA) in the unorganised manufacturing sector of India across different states and union territories (UTs) using four rounds of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data from 2000 to 2016. The paper matches the data according to the National Industrial Classification of 2008 to ensu...

The present study attempts to analyse the access of microfinance and its role to promote the growth of unorganized manufacturing enterprises (UMEs) in India and points out the determinants that influence financial access with the help of NSSO Unit Level data of 67th (2010–11) and 73rd (2015–16) rounds. The study reveals that less than 10% UMEs had...

Present paper analyses employment and labour productivity of unorganized trading enterprises (UTEs) in India and her states based on the latest two rounds (67 th and73 rd) of NSSO Unit Level data. The relative importance of UTEs in India is reflected from its contribution to overall employment (99 per cent) and to unorganised employment (35 per cen...

Since unorganised manufacturing enterprises (UMEs) provide employment to a huge mass in India therefore its growth and productivity is a matter of concern. Thus, through this paper the growth and productivity of Indian UMEs are shown with the help of NSSO Data (67 th and 73 rd Rounds). This paper reveals that the number of UMEs increased significan...

This paper examines the status of growth of unorganised trading enterprises (UTEs) of West Bengal based on NSSO Unit Level data of 67 th (2010-11) and 73 rd (2015-16) rounds. It is revealed that the growth rate of UTEs and employment was positive in India although in West Bengal these growth rates were negative during 2010-11 to 2015-16. Urban loca...