Asia & the Pacific

Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Wages and Incomes in Formal and Informal Sectors in India

Organizing the ‘Unorganized’: Varieties of Transnational Trade Union Collaboration and Social Dialogue in Two Indian Cities

Special issue on labor in the global South

Give Back Our Waste

Summary from Chintan: Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally...

Trade and Employment in Services: The Case of Indonesia

This study examines the importance of the services sector and its linkages with other sectors in terms of value-added and employment from...

The Management of Risk: Informal Trade in Indonesia

Political Reservations and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India

Abstract: This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with...

Gender, informality and poverty

From the paper’s introduction: In this paper we shall argue that it is not informality per se, but the nature of work and its relation...

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

Documenting the Lack of Labour Rights in India’s Construction Sector

The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #80: “Documenting the Lack...