Economic policy since Independence has provided various benefits to small enterprises to ensure employment to workers who did not find work in the organised sector. These benefits provided incentives to small entrepreneurs to formally register their enterprises.
In the four and a half years of its existence the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector submitted nine reports exploring a variety of conditions in India
This paper examines the role of the external institutional environment captured by effective state-business relations on firm performance. By effective statebusiness relations, mean a set of highly institutionalised, responsive and public interactions between the state and the business sector. Find that
The government will soon introduce rules to regulate informal e-waste recycling sector, but the formal sector itself is flouting regulations. Read this DTE investigative report on the thriving "illegal trade of e-waste" and dangerous working conditions.
E-waste Rules, 2010 is a very important regulation issued by Ministry of Environment & Forest as it integrates the most progressive principle of Extended Producer Responsibility. The Draft Rules, though, need to look closely at the guiding objective and formulate and mandate measures based on that.
In a society where environmental concerns over inadequate disposal of hazardous liquid and solid wastes and recycling are officially treated with somewhat nonchalance, the activities of human scavengers of metal, rubber, paper/paperboard yard and wood waste products, variously referred
This paper, based on qualitative research within two communities in Addis Ababa, identifies factors that impoverish households and expose them to chronic food shortages, and assesses their coping and survival strategies.
In low and middle-income countries, the informal sector carries out a significant proportion of recycling activity in solid waste management (SWM). For the purposes of this study, the term
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has requested the APSF to contribute to exchange of knowledge on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (hereafter referred to as e-waste), ship dismantling and the remediation of contaminated sites.
This publication is a collection of Indian voices on economic structures, relations and principles that are needed to serve the goals of sustainable economic and human development, poverty eradication, social justice, and empowerment of the most vulnerable segments of society: women, dalits and adivasis.
