Churning numbers w/ @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social & @rosaabraham.bsky.social from India's economic census for a project:
From the set of non-agri enterprises in India, >98% are informal or micro enterprises (with no hired or hired but < than 10 workers) + they acc for 79% of all workers in the set.
From the set of non-agri enterprises in India, >98% are informal or micro enterprises (with no hired or hired but < than 10 workers) + they acc for 79% of all workers in the set.
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Informality (& the persistent surplus labour) is such a defining feature of the contemporary growth process in India.