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- Documents the current degree of financial inclusion among street vendors
- Identifies the policy constraints and drivers for the broader adoption of financial services appropriate to the needs of the street vendors
- Presents a gender-disaggregated picture of the financial inclusion among street vendors, improving the general understanding of the problems faced by women street vendors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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Authors and Affiliations
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
Sharit K. Bhowmik
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, India
Debdulal Saha
About the authors
Sharit Bhowmik is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Labour Studies, Tata institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has been engaged in research on informal employment, especially street vendors, for the past 15 years. He was a member of the National Task Force on Street Vendors and of the Drafting Committee for the National Policy (2004) appointed by the Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation (now renamed the Ministry of Housing and Poverty Alleviation). He has edited a volume on Street Vendors in the Global Urban Economy (Routledge, 2010) and published a book titled Industry, Labour and Society (Orient Blackswan, 2012). He has also published several articles in peer reviewed journals and as chapters in books on labour, informal economy and worker co-operatives, as well as a monograph on tea plantation labour.Â
Debdulal Saha is Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus. He received his MA in Economics from theUniversity of North Bengal and his PhD from the TISS Mumbai. As a PhD scholar, he was a recipient of the prestigious scholarship from the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), part of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).He has published papers on street vendors and the informal economy in national and international journals and has served as a research coordinator in three major research projects on street vendors in the urban informal economy. He has co-edited a book on the Food Crisis and its Implication on Labour.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised
Book Subtitle: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy
Authors: Sharit K. Bhowmik, Debdulal Saha
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1506-6
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1505-9Published: 14 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1753-4Published: 08 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1506-6Published: 03 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 134
Topics: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Finance, general, Public Economics