Asia & the Pacific

Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries

This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,...

Developing an Action-based Health and Safety Training Project in Southern China

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

Gender, informality and poverty

From the paper’s introduction: In this paper we shall argue that it is not informality per se, but the nature of work and its relation...

Policy Recommendations, Informal Economy Monitoring Study – Bangkok’s Home-Based Workers: Realities & Recommendations

Special Issue on Labor Law Reforms in India

The issue features an article on law and the self-employed in India (see pp 133-150, Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases),...

Employment Vulnerability in the Urban Labour Market in India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study deals with the issue of employment vulnerability in the urban labour market in India. Vulnerability in the labour market has been...

Living Conditions of Tea Plantation Workers

The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

Waste pickers are one of the three urban informal worker groups – along with street vendors and home-based workers – who are the focus of...