Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

The Informal Sector in Sri Lanka: Its Nature and Extent and the Impact of Globalization

Small World, Big Goals: A Home-Based Garment Worker in Delhi

From her Delhi home, Farida-ben embroiders garments for foreign retailers. Denied an education and other options, she has done this work...

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

The Business Environment and the Informal Economy: Creating Conditions for Poverty Reduction

Draft Paper for Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development Conference on “Reforming the Business Environment” November...

Asian Labour Migration: Issues and Challenges in an Era of Globalization

A Theoretical Review of the Urban Informal Sector or Informal Economy in Developing Countries and Its Future Directions in an Era of Globalisation

Abstract: This paper is a theoretical review of the urban informal sector or ‘informal economy’ in developing countries. It reviews various...

From Local to Global and Informal to Formal: Entering Mainstream Markets

Women in the Informal Sector: A Global Picture, the Global Movement

Abstract:

Towards full and decent employment

Global Trade and Homework: Closing the DivideGender and Development

Home work has re-emerged as a new form of subcontracted production. Promoted through global capital, it relies on sweatshop labour conditions...