Asia & the Pacific

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Neither Seen Nor Heard: South Asia’s Millions of Home-based Workers

Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions and are essential to many industries, yet remain invisible and disregarded...

National Workshop on Urban Governance with Reference to Urban Poverty

A report of the proceedings of a national workshop organized by HomeNet Nepal, ActionAid International Nepal, Nepal Mahila Ekata Samaj, Ministry...

Easing the Barriers to Formality: Regulatory Framework Affecting Mongolian Micro and Small Businesses

Unorganised Sector Workforce in India: Trends, Patterns and Social Security Coverage

Legal Recognition of Street VendorsYOJANA

This article gives a brief explanation of the Bill for the protection of livelihood and regulation of street vending in the Lok Sabha. This...

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...

Integrating the Urban Poor in Planning and Governance Systems, India

This paper is Working Paper 3 in the CUE Working Papers Series. More information and other related research papers are available on the website...

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

The Urban Dibao Program in China: Targeting and its EffectThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics

In this paper, the data of China’s Urban Employment and Social Protection Survey 2010 (CULS3) has been adopted to evaluate the dibao programme...