All posts in Asia & the Pacific
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City/Country Level Reports
Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-Based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad
NCAER Working Paper Series No. 75
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Journal Articles
Neglect of Sewage Workers: Concerns about the New Act
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 does not give the same rights to those who manually...
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Journal Articles
Planning as Practice? Governing Conjunctures and Informal Urbanisation in Solapur Town
Solapur is a town in Maharashtra with a vibrant industrial legacy, yet fraught with spatial and socio-economic divisions in the contemporary...
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Research Reports
Vendors and Informal Sector: A Case-Study of Street Vendors of Surat City
Abstract: Street vending is an important activity related to informal sector in urban areas. Majority of street vendors are illiterate or...
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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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Journal Articles
China’s Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China
Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected...
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Journal Articles
Measuring Indian Growth
The article offers some explanations for the large changes in growth rates in the rebased gross domestic product series, but argues that...
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Journal Articles
Participatory Training to Improve Safety and Health in Small Construction Sites in Some Countries in Asia: Development and Application of the WISCON Training Program
Abstract: A participatory training program, Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites, was developed to provide practical support measures...
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Journal Articles
Governing urbanization and the New Urbanization Plan in China
This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.
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