Vansh Gupta
The Modern School, New Delhi, India

MLA 8
Gupta, Vansh. "UPI and the Informal Economy: A State-Level Analysis of Digital Payment Adoption and Informal Enterprise Performance in India." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 11, no. 9, Sept. 2026, pp. 5203-5225, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2026.v11i09.045. Accessed Sept. 2026.
APA 6
Gupta, V. (2026, September). UPI and the Informal Economy: A State-Level Analysis of Digital Payment Adoption and Informal Enterprise Performance in India. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 11(9), 5203-5225. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2026.v11i09.045
Chicago
Gupta, Vansh. "UPI and the Informal Economy: A State-Level Analysis of Digital Payment Adoption and Informal Enterprise Performance in India." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 11, no. 9 (September 2026), 5203-5225. Accessed September, 2026. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2026.v11i09.045.

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