Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

• Tác giả: William R Kerr
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 261.83 Social problems and services
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 321584
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCOUNTING; 2. ADB; 3. AID; 4. BANKING SECTOR; 5. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Tóm tắt

The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had women's participation remained in the proportion to male-owned businesses that was evident in 1994, the unorganized manufacturing sector would have declined in share rather than increased. Most of these new female-owned businesses are opened in the household and at a small scale, about a third of the size of a typical male-owned business in the informal sector. Yet, it appears that these businesses offer economic opportunities not otherwise present and a transition for some women from unpaid domestic work.