Asia & the Pacific

Street vending in urban India: The struggle for recognition

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Networking Grassroots Efforts to Improve Safety and Health in Informal Economy Workplaces in AsiaIndustrial Health

An Economic Analysis of a Public-Private-Community Partnership: The Case of Solid Waste Management in Dhaka, BangladeshWorld Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development

This paper assesses the economic efficiency of a public-private community partnership in urban solid waste management in Dhaka City. Based...

Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence

CPRC Working Paper 97

Report on Scrap Collectors, Scrap Traders, and Recycling Enterprises in Pune

Articulating Growth in the Urban Spectrum

Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India

Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this...

Informality: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Working Paper 2014-18 

Measuring Indian Growth

The article offers some explanations for the large changes in growth rates in the rebased gross domestic product series, but argues that...