Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

Making Agricultural Value Chain Programmes Work for Workers: A Practical Guide for Development Donors and Practitioners

This guide, aimed at development donors and practitioners, seeks to improve the poverty, economic and gender impacts of agricultural value...

Neither Seen Nor Heard: South Asia’s Millions of Home-based Workers

Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions and are essential to many industries, yet remain invisible and disregarded...

Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Home-based Workers

Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Fair Trade: Case Studies from India and Nepal

This article gives a summary of experiences from India and Nepal from an action research project on producer organizations of working poor...

Human Development and Clothing Manufacturing in Cambodia: Challenges and Strategies for the Garment Industry

Informal Workers in Global Horticulture and Commodities Value Chains: A Review of Literature

This paper analyzes existing value chain literature in the existing horticulture and commodities sectors with a particular focus on what...

Globalization and Homebased Workers

The Management of Risk: Informal Trade in Indonesia

Issues in Developing a Common Framework on Informal Employment

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...