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Dr. Rajesh Raj S.N. is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Sikkim University, India. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. His main research interests include industrial economics, firm dynamics, efficiency and productivity analysis, and informal labour. His publications include articles in academic journals (Small Business Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Manchester School, International Journal of Educational Development, Oxford Development Studies, European Journal of Development Research, Developing Economies, and others), numerous chapters in edited volumes, and the book 'Out of the Shadows? The Informal Manufacturing in Post-Reform India', co-authored with Kunal Sen (Oxford University Press). He is also the author of the book 'Small Firm Ownership and Credit Constraints in India' (forthcoming), published by Routledge. He is the recipient of the Dr. VKRV Rao Prize in Economics for the year 2014 by the ISEC (Institute for Social and Economic Change), Bangalore, and ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research), New Delhi.