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Entrepreneurial Avenues for Scheduled Tribe Communities in Nonfarm Enterprise Sector: Prospects and Challenges

In: Development Challenges of India After Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms

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  • Partha Pratim Sahu

    (Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), NIRDPR)

  • Manik Kumar

    (Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), NIRDPR)

Abstract

This paper explores the role of social group identity on private enterprise ownership in India. Drawing data from NSSO-Unincorporated Non-Agricultural Enterprises Survey: 2010–11 and 2015–16, the paper seeks to analyse how caste discrimination continues to exist and hinder economic participation for specific groups. The disadvantageous castes, especially Scheduled Tribes (STs) not only own a disproportionately low share in the private business economy but also operate at low-end activities with low levels of productivity and earnings and there is hardly any improvement in their participation during the period under study 2011–16. However, there are significant variations in enterprise ownership among marginalized groups across type and location of enterprise, scale of operation and a host of other characteristics. This paper obtains some interesting results which have important policy implications. The analysis also opens up a rich research agenda, including further investigation of various issues regarding tribal entrepreneurship in India.

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  • Partha Pratim Sahu & Manik Kumar, 2020. "Entrepreneurial Avenues for Scheduled Tribe Communities in Nonfarm Enterprise Sector: Prospects and Challenges," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Nripendra Kishore Mishra (ed.), Development Challenges of India After Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms, pages 225-245, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-15-8265-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8265-3_12
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