Reflections from Case Studies Sarthi Acharya Niru Acharya The small-scale sector which accounts for a substantial quantity of goods and provides employment has been uniformly affected by the new economic policies on one count or the other, The present policies are also oblivious to the problems of small farmers and other primary sector producers, especially in the semi-arid regions. This article attempts to assess the impact of new economic policies through a set of case studies of units in the small sector.