ABSTRACT
The incidence of self-employment (most of it highly fragile and vulnerable) has actu-
ally increased as a proportion of non-agricultural work, and the only reason for its overall
stagnation is the decline in agricultural employment, particularly in the number of women
workers self-employed in agriculture. Meanwhile, the share of the informal sector in GDP
has fallen quite sharply during this period of high growth. Indeed, the recent period of
most rapid acceleration of national income (NNP) was also the period of sharpest fall in
the share of unorganised incomes (Figure 5). Thus, while the formal organised sector has
substantially increased its share of national income, it has done so without drawing in
more workers in the standard Lewisian trajectory.
