Asia & the Pacific

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

Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms

Avoiding informality traps

Draft paper for E. Ghani (Ed.), Reshaping tomorrow: Positioning South Asia for the big leap

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...

Definitional and Statistical Issues: Task force Report

This is a report of the  Task Force  set up to review the existing definitions and evolve a set of criteria for  common definitions of un-organised/informal...

Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-Based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad

NCAER Working Paper Series No. 75

Do Rights Work? Law, Activism, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme

Analyzes whether enshrining employment as a right has a substantive effect on access to employment in India.

The Beedi Industry in India: An Overview

A report on Improving Working Conditions and Employment Opportunities for Women Workers in Beedi Industry by Best Practices Foundation for...

One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...