Urban poor and Urban informal sector

Available studies on the economics of urban informal sector have focussed their attention on the informal sector as a broad
unit of study and brought out the main features, problems and prospects of this sector. But within the informal sector itself
there are formal and informal segments each of which exhibits different characteristics and presents diffarent sets of prob-
lems requiring unique policy measures. It is in response to a need for studies on the individual segments of the informal sector that the present study was initiated focussing its attention on the waste recycle industry in Bangalore city.
Apart from presenting an estimate of the size of informal sector employment in Bangalore, and nature, structure and problems
of the waste recycle industry, the study sketches the profile of the so-called urban poor, examines the character of the labour
market of urban informal sector and suggests pol icy measures for ameliorating urban poverty.