Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
Item Number: [C7]
Title: Small Firms in India: A Discussion of Some Issues
Abstract: This paper asks how do small firms behave and what is their
role in Indian economic development. It examines aggregate descriptions
of small firms in India: their role in economic development, the industry
by industry variation in their relative importance and the size structure
of industry. Carefully distinguishing aggregate relationships from
those of the firm, several theoretical and empirical issues are taken up.
The small firms' response to government policy is also examined.
Reference: Ira N. Gang, Small Firms in India: A Discussion of
Some Issues, in Dilip Mookherjee, ed., Economics of Indian Industry, 1995,
Oxford University Press, 322-350. Reprinted in paperback edition, 1997.
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