Understanding the dynamics of self-employment in rural Assam: Productive or precarious
By: Tamuli, Mondira
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BookPublisher: Social Change and Development Description: 19(2), Jul, 2022: p.78-88.Subject(s): Self-employment, Rural Assam, Assam
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Social Change and DevelopmentSummary: Assam; primarily an agrarian state of North-Eastern region of India has undergone significant structural changes over the last two decades. As the agriculture sector is facing challenges in providing descent and stable earning as employment in the sector is largely limited to the peak season only and as a result workforce have to stay idol in major times of the year. Therefore, a large section of rural workforce has already started leaving agricultural activities or intends to leave the sector by being engaged in non-agricultural activities like manufacturing, transport and communications, petty trade etc. But, in most cases, such movement can be observed as an indication of survival strategy mostly in self-employed form rather than generation of quality self-employment as employment elasticity outside the agriculture sector is also not satisfactory.- Reproduced
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | 19(2), Jul, 2022: p.78-88 | Available | AR127892 |
Assam; primarily an agrarian state of North-Eastern region of India has undergone significant structural changes over the last two decades. As the agriculture sector is facing challenges in providing descent and stable earning as employment in the sector is largely limited to the peak season only and as a result workforce have to stay idol in major times of the year. Therefore, a large section of rural workforce has already started leaving agricultural activities or intends to leave the sector by being engaged in non-agricultural activities like manufacturing, transport and communications, petty trade etc. But, in most cases, such movement can be observed as an indication of survival strategy mostly in self-employed form rather than generation of quality self-employment as employment elasticity outside the agriculture sector is also not satisfactory.- Reproduced
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