Region: Asia & the Pacific

Report on Situation of Domestic Workers in Thailand in 2012

Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat

Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

Informality, Returns to Education and Labour Market Integration in China-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study analyses data from household surveys in six large Chinese cities in 2010 to describe the nature of informal employment and estimate...

Analysing the Structural Change and Growth Relationship in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly

Examining the link between structural change and growth in India, this study constructs indices of structural change, and performs a panel...

Street Vendors in the Urban EconomyIndia International Centre Quarterly

In most Indian cities the urban poor survive by working in the informal economy. Poverty and lack of gainful employment in the rural areas...

From Revanchism to Ambivalence: The Changing Politics of Street Vending in Guangzhou.Antipode

By focusing on Guangzhou’s street-vending policy transformation, this article explores how exclusionary practices of urban politics...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Special Issue on Unorganized WorkersThe Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

The informal economy has always existed in India, but it was seen neither as an important part of the economy, nor as a theoretical category...