Asia & the Pacific

Trends and Processes of Urbanisation in India

Alleviating Poverty and Greening the City: Women Rag Pickers of Mumbai

International Conference “O Combate à Pobreza e à Exclusão Social : estratégias para o século XXI”

The Informal Economy in Indonesia: Size, Composition and Evolution

This study of statistical audit informal economy: an Indonesian case study was undertaken as part of an effort to clarify data- and statistics-related...

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Indonesia

This report contains the findings of the 2009 National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) (second round conducted on 8–1 August 2009) and the...

Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development Review

The increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility...

Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India’s unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase...

The Micro Political Economy of Gains by Unorganised Workers in India

This review of literature looks at the micro-political mechanisms through which unorganised labour makes gains in wages and conditions of...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Bangkok, Thailand

Ahmedabad’s BRT System: A Sustainable Urban Transport Panacea?Economic and Political Weekly

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and the National Urban Transport Policy have given a boost to bus rapid transit systems...

Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India

Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this...