A Glimpse on the Financial Literacy of Street Vendors of Guwahati, Jorhat and Tezpur Cities of Assam

Author(s): Dr. Manoj Kumar Das

Abstract:

Being a visible segment of informal economy, street vendors play a significant role mostly in underdeveloped and developing countries like India although they have been facing various problems over the decades. They have been contributing to these economies in terms of employment, revenue generation, use of local resources, growth of industries, supply of necessary goods and services at the doorsteps etc, but government measures and policies for protecting their interest particularly the urban street vendors are remaining inadequate in India. The size of urban street vendors has been increasing in Assam in recent decades as a result of which it becomes an emerging threat and cause of concern for the urban administrators, town planners, commuters and public at large. In this study, sample of 400 urban street vendors in three municipal cities of Guwahati, Tezpur and Jorhat of Assam (India) have been taken into account to analyse certain aspects of financial literacy of sample vendors of Assam.

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