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  • Research Reports

    Social Security for Informal Economy Workers in Indonesia: Looking for Flexible and Highly Targeted Programmes

    In Indonesia about 17% of the employed population enjoys formal social security mainly employees of the formal sector. With respect to health...

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  • Research Reports

    Interplay of Women, Money and Power: SEWA Members’ Perspective

    Talk given at the Conference on ‘Women, Money, Power’ held by Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, October...

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  • Journal Articles

    Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development Review

    The increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Glittering Threads: A Socio Economic Study of Women Zari Workers

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  • Research Reports

    Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Research Reports

    Street Vendors in Ahmedabad: Status, Contribution and Challenges

    From the preface: “This Working Paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade...

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  • Research Reports

    Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India’s Economic Boom

    Abstract: In the past twenty years, India’s economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest-growing economies...

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  • Research Reports

    Surveying Informalised Labour Conditions in India’s Organised Garment Sector

    Development Viewpoint, No. 79

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  • Research Reports

    Valuing Informal Integration: Inclusive Recycling in North Africa and the Middle East

    Report highlighting cases from North Africa and the Middle East of inclusive waste management systems. Lessons for improved practice in waste...

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