Don't forget the informal sector: reviving manufacturing in India

The Indian government's economic package designed to revive its manufacturing sector post-lockdown needs to help every segment of the sector, including the informal sector. Here Kannan Kumar (Researcher, India) and Aastha Sharma (Researcher, India) explain how the domestic value chains traverse the formal and informal segments of the economy, which show the need for the government’s revival policies to not forget the informal sector in its post-lockdown economic plans.