Public and Workplace Services

Urban Planning for the Working Poor

Background Note for the HABITAT Jam, December 1-4, 2005

Going Downmarket: Ghana’s Rural Banks Adapt informal Savings Methodology

Political reservations and women’s entrepreneurship in India

Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship...

Crowding in Care, Security and Micro-enterprise Formation: Revisiting the Role of the State in Poverty Reduction, and in Development

Social Protection in Asia

Rethinking Informalization: Poverty, Precarious Jobs and Social Protection

Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America

‘Good jobs’ and hidden costs: Women workers documenting the price of precarious employmentGender and Development

Summary:This article describes the precarious terms and conditions of employment experienced by millions of women working in global supply...

Occupational Injuries in Ghana

One-Eyed Science: Occupational Health and Women Workers