Entrepreneurship in Services and Socially Disadvantaged in India

While substantial literature now exists on poverty and inequality among social groups, until now, almost nothing has been known about how the socially dis-advantaged groups fare in entrepreneurship in terms of shares in the GVA, workers employed, and number of enterprises owned. Our chapter provides a first comprehensive look at these measures of entrepreneurship. We analyze the presence of the socially disadvantaged groups in proprietary and partnership enterprises in the economy as a whole, according to enterprises size, in rural and urban areas, according to sectors, and in different states.