01805nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100005100060245007000111260004500181300003600226520120600262773004501468906001601513942000701529952011101536  c524695d524695240111b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMehrotra, Santosh and Giri,Tuhinsubhra 947995  aEnterprise informality in India: The blind spots in public policy  aThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics    a66(3), Jul-Sep, 2023: p.687-710  aAn essential characteristic of firm size distribution patterns in developing countries including India, is a bimodal distribution with a “missing middle”, which is widely accepted in development economics. We analyse data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), National Sample Survey (NSS) and Economic Census to assess the firm size structure of the whole non-farm sector. The contribution of the paper is that for the first time a comprehensive database is constructed to enable analysis of the size structure of India’s non-farm enterprises. The second contribution is that we find a deep distortion in India, with even a “small”-scale sector being very small, relatively. We examine briefly the policy-related causes that make India an outlier even among Asian economies in respect of size structure of enterprises. Finally, we argue that the historically policy-induced informality of enterprises is being entrenched by the current hiatus in state policy in even recognising the true nature of the problem of micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs), which holds back both their growth and employment. – Reproduced 

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