Markets and Social Institutions: Dalit Entrepreneurship [1]
DICCI (photo credit)
The second set of activities is a research project that seeks to understand the salient characteristics of Dalit entrepreneurship and the principal factors that facilitate and impede Dalit entrepreneurship that are distinct from those faced by entrepreneurs from other communities. A key goal of this research project is to examine the role of markets and the private sector’s abilities to deliver economic and social empowerment. The project has four components:
- Identifying large-scale revenue generating Dalit entrepreneurs (with sales above $0.5 million) and then doing a detailed survey. We are identifying a thousand such entrepreneurs and the survey has been launched.
- Biographical Sketches of about twenty entrepreneurs.
- A survey of small-scale revenue generating Dalit entrepreneurs, focusing on the recycling industry in six towns across India
- Dalit social entrepreneurship, using case studies of several prominent Dalit social entrepreneurs.
Publications
Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs, Chandra Bhan Prasad, D. Shyam Babu, Devesh Kapur [2]
Recycling Sector, CASI Working Paper (coming soon)
Promoting Economic Development: Dalit Social Entrepreneurship, CASI Working Paper (coming soon)
Research Affiliates
[3]Chandra Bhan Prasad [4]
CASI Fall 2007 Visiting Scholar
D. Shyam Babu [5]
CASI Spring 2009 Visiting Scholar
Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research
Founder and Director, Chintan
Environmental Research and
Action Group
Kaushiki Rao [7]
Independent researcher
Project Funding
Templeton Foundation
Press Release [8]
Related Publications
Media Coverage
VC Fund to Promote Dalit Biz Launched, The Economic Times Bangalore, October 5, 2012 [22]
Dalits get their own VC fund, Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard, April 14, 2012 [23]
Indian Outcast Millionaire Mulls Caste, Riches, Tim Sullivan, AP, Yahoo News, December 26, 2011 [24]