Region: Asia & the Pacific

Informal Employment in India and China

How to Assess Security of Tenure and Emulate Mortgages for Financing Semi-Formal Homes: Lessons from Mahila Housing SEWA Trust

Nohn and Bhatt’s Technical Brief examines how the Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) has tackled the issue of housing loans in contexts of tenure...

Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism,...

IDRC Final Report: Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor

Summary of three-country study of law and the working poor, funded by IDRC (November 2011-March 2013)

Working Paper 14: Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

The bulk of Pakistan’s workforce is unorganized, and the data available do not depict the true picture, particularly of the number of women...

Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women

Rights of Home-based Workers

Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India

Wages and Incomes in Formal and Informal Sectors in India

India’s Informal Workers and Social Protection

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