Asia & the Pacific

Report of The Second National Commission on Labour

New Governance and the Role of Public and Private Monitoring of Labor Conditions: Sweatshops and China Social Compliance for Textile and Apparel Industry/CSC9000T

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India’s Informal Workers and Social Protection

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

Failing the Grade: How Cities Across India are Breaking the Rules, Ignoring the Informal Recycling Sector and Unable to Make the Grade

Indian policies and rules, while not perfect, have some important safeguards and recognition for informal sector recyclers, particularly...

Measuring the Informal Economy

A Field Study of Microinsurance in the Philippines

Organized Labour and Economic Liberalization – India: past, present and future

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

The Politics of Classification and the Complexity of Governance in Census Towns

Spontaneous urbanisation through the transfer of capital from the agricultural sector to the commercial sector has given rise to a large...