Towards a Vibrant Small Enterprise Economy in India

P.M. Mathew is Director, Institute of Small Enterprises and Development (ISED), Cochin. In a career spanning over two and half decades, he worked in various capacities, as teacher, trainer, researcher and consultant. He has written widely on issues of small enterprise development and regional planning, and has participated in several international conferences and Discussion Groups. Apart from many research papers and reports, he is also author of Women’s Organisations and Women’s Interests (1986), Informal Sector in India: Critical Perspectives (1995), Small Enterprises and Regional Development (1999) and, Small Enterprise Development: The Experience of the North and the South (2000). A consultant to several national and international organizations, he is also Member of international Missions, and expert committees of the Central and State Governments. Dr. Mathew has served as Member of the Dr. S.P. Gupta Committee on Small Enterprise Development at the Planing Commission, the Prime Minister’s Consultative Group on Unorganised Sector, and the Dr. Pravin Visaria Committee on Unorganised Manufacturing at the NSSO. He was honoured by the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), Tokyo, with its prestigious Oshikawa International Award in 1995, and by the Birla Foundation with its Birla Economics Fellowship in 2001.