Region: Asia & the Pacific

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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...

The Importance of Being ‘Rurban’Economic and Political Weekly

A categorical distinction is facing rough weather–that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the...

The Indian labour market: A gender perspective

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of trends in labour market outcomes of women in India based on unit level data sets of employment...

Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforum

Street vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood...

The Regularization of Street Vending in Bhubaneshwar, India: A Policy Model

After years of conflict between street traders and local authorities, the city of Bhubaneshwar, India developed a public, private and community...

Home-Based Workers in India: Statistics and Trends

This brief presents numbers and analysis of home-based workers in India from 1999-00 to 2011-12. It is based on data collected by the National...

Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

Women Workers in the Informal Sector in South Asia: Creating an Enabling Environment

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