KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Financial inclusion of MSMEs and its impact on society -Hardika Shah
-The Hindu Business Line Why access to capital for MSME entrepreneurs has the potential to alter India’s social fabric India’s social fabric has undergone a series of transformations since Independence. After the liberalisation of the economy in the 1990s, the market opened up and employment opportunities grew, as did the spending power and standard of living of the average Indian. As financial access grew, so did social mobility. However, certain sections have lagged...
More »How to tackle delayed payments to MSMEs -Bhaven Shah and Garv Sultania
-The Hindu Business Line Faster and more effective, Online Dispute Resolution has gained wide recognition from the judiciary, govt and business entities Contributing 29 per cent to India’s GDP and 40 per cent of India’s exports, 6.3 crore micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide employment to 21 per cent of India’s workforce translating into 80 million jobs. However, MSMEs continue to face serious issues and disputes relating to delayed payments that choke...
More »Govt data: Only 18% of 1 crore registered MSMEs owned by women entrepreneurs -Parvathy Pillai
-Financial Express Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: As of August 3, 2022, 17,96,408 enterprises were women-owned MSMEs out of the total 99,58,903 MSMEs registered on the Udyam portal. Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: 18 per cent of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) registered in the country are owned by women entrepreneurs, according to government data. As of August 3, 2022, 17,96,408 enterprises were women-owned MSMEs out of the total...
More »Upper-caste businesspersons own 61.8% of micro, small and medium firms in India: Government data
-Scroll.in Entrepreneurs from the Scheduled Caste category own 6.8% of these enterprises, while those in the Scheduled Tribe category own just 2.1% of them. People belonging to the general category own 61.8% of all the micro, small and medium enterprises in India, The Hindu reported on Wednesday, citing government data. The Mandal Commission, which looked into the question of Other Backward Class reservation, has defined general category as groups that are “socially and...
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