Asia & the Pacific

Bangkok’s Street Vending Ban: A Summary of the Research on the Social and Economic Impacts

Bangkok Street Vending Ban 2016

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.

Universal Health Coverage Workshop at ASEAN People’s Forum

• September 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
• Bangkok, Thailand

HomeNet Southeast Asia, in collaboration with regional advocacy platform SEA Junction and WIEGO, held a panel discussion on social protection...

HNSEA Universal Health Coverage Workshop at ASEAN People’s Forum

• September 10, 2019 - September 12, 2019
• Bangkok, Thailand

Members of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered in Bangkok, Thailand for the ASEAN Summit from 31 October...

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

New Governance and the Role of Public and Private Monitoring of Labor Conditions: Sweatshops and China Social Compliance for Textile and Apparel Industry/CSC9000T

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India’s Informal Workers and Social Protection

A publication of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania