Sustainability Issues of Women Street Vegetable & Flower Entrepreneurs in Goa: Need for State Interventions

Abstract

In the wave of globalisation and the neo-classical economic doctrine of ‘market expansion and state compression’, the footprints of women street entrepreneurs are fast disappearing from our economy. The women street entrepreneurship provided a wonderful opportunity for inclusive growth narratives in rural areas among the economically and socially challenged sections. The advent liberalisation–privatisation–globalisation (LPG) process robbed even the public space available to the women street entrepreneurs in Goa 1 especially, the women and their death-knell became louder and clearer with every passing day.