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dc.contributor.authorBhattacharya, Rajesh
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-26T06:06:25Z-
dc.date.available2021-08-26T06:06:25Z-
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061291247&doi=10.1002%2fisd2.12075&partnerID=40&md5=eb88e6ce110e115cfddb5d5385aab1c1
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/1455-
dc.descriptionBhattacharya, Rajesh, Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, C-306, IIM Calcutta, Joka, D. H. Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700104, India
dc.descriptionISSN/ISBN - 16814835
dc.descriptionDOI - 10.1002/isd2.12075
dc.description.abstractIn the dominant policy discourses, the informal sector is often treated as composed of millions of entrepreneurs who are stuck at small scales of business with low levels of productivity and incomes because of market imperfections, institutional rigidities, or regulatory bias. Technological inclusion is often considered a solution to the problem of institutional exclusion that the informal business owners face. Such policies are often based on the assumption that informal business owners behave like entrepreneurs. However, there is also an alternative view that informal business owners are forced to run businesses on their own account because they cannot find decent jobs in the formal or organized modern sector. Their skills and attitudes towards risk are very different from what we associate with entrepreneurs. Technology solutions in general—and information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in particular—are more likely to be effective in their developmental objectives, if a more nuanced and disaggregated view of the informal economy is adopted. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
dc.publisherSCOPUS
dc.publisherElectronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.relation.ispartofseries85(3)
dc.subjectDeveloping economies
dc.subjectEntrepreneur
dc.subjectInformal sector
dc.subjectInformation and communication technology
dc.titleICT solutions for the informal sector in developing economies: What can one expect?
dc.typeArticle
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