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  • Journal Articles

    Planning as Practice? Governing Conjunctures and Informal Urbanisation in Solapur Town

    Solapur is a town in Maharashtra with a vibrant industrial legacy, yet fraught with spatial and socio-economic divisions in the contemporary...

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  • Research Reports

    New Practices of Waste Management – Case of Mumbai

    Working Paper No. 35 in the SP Working Paper Series of School of Planning of CEPT University

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  • Research Reports

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

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    ‘Life Has Educated Me’: Building Interpersonal Networks through the Jadibanagar Slum Upgrading Project

    This study is a jointly produced outcome from the reflection and sharing of group participants in the Exposure Dialogue Programme (EDP)....

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  • Journal Articles

    Bringing Back Social ForestryEconomic and Political Weekly

    India’s social forestry programme promised much in the late-1970s and mid-1980s. It became the programme to be emulated for many developing...

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  • Journal Articles

    Globalization, The Financial Crisis and Petty Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy

    Abstract: This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis...

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  • Journal Articles

    In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs

    The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...

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  • Working Papers

    Informality in South Asia: A Review

    This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

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  • Policy Briefs

    Housing Finance for Poor Working Women: Innovations of the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India

    The Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) of India recognizes that the home is a paramount productive asset, especially for poor women....

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  • Research Reports

    Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

    Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

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