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Journal Articles
Industrial Conflict in India in the Post-Reform Period
The processes of liberalisation, globalisation, and privatisation were expected to weaken the bargaining power of workers vis-à-vis employers...
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Research Reports
Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector
This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...
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Journal Articles
Indian ExportsEconomic and Political Weekly
A time series of exports indicates that average export growth has remained almost stagnant since January 2012 after a sharp bounce back in...
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Research Reports
Our Children Do Not Get the Attention They Deserve
This report presents the results of a five-city research study examining informal women workers’ access to child care in Brazil, Ghana,...
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Research Reports
The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai
Working Paper 32/17 from the Centre for Development Policy and Research presents a summary of the findings of “The ESRC-DFID Research...
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Worker Story
Headstrong: Profile of a Headloader in Ahmedabad, India
A leader among headloaders in Ahmedabad’s busy textile market, Shanta Bababahi Bhalerao knows firstand how belonging to the growing...
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Research Reports
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors
This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...
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Journal Articles
Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City
Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...
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Statistical Briefs
Women and Men Operators of Enterprises in India’s Informal Sector
Women and Men Operators of Enterprises in India’s Informal Sector presents a profile of non-agricultural, informal sector (proprietary, sole...
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Briefs
Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore
This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.
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