Asia & the Pacific

Home-Based Workers in India: Statistics and Trends

This brief presents numbers and analysis of home-based workers in India from 1999-00 to 2011-12. It is based on data collected by the National...

Pune’s Waste Pickers: Realities & Recommendations

Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India

Abstract: ‘Grassroots innovations’ in India are receiving increasing attention from innovation scholars and policymakers alike. These innovations...

Peeling the Onion: Social Regulation of the Onion Market, Nangarhar, AfghanistanEconomic and Political Weekly

Afghanistan’s hope that market-driven agriculture will ensure its economic transformation demonstrates a wilful disregard of the links...

We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India

People Working Informally: Negotiating the Use of Public Spaces in Durban City

Paper for panel entitled “Urban Responses to Street Traders: A Comparative Perspective from India, Kenya, and South...

Capitalism and the Common Man – Four Decades of Development in Africa and S Asia

Unpublished paper written for Graduate Institute, Annual Lecture, Geneva, 23 September 2010

Seen but not heard: Urban voice and citizenship for street traders

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A Participatory Model for Improving Occupational Health and Safety: Improving Informal Sector Working Conditions in ThailandInternational Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of an Occupational Health and Safety Management Model for informal sector workers...

The Unorganized Sector and Urban Poverty: Issues in Livelihoods