Asia & the Pacific

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Executive Summary: Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers

The Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) is designed to provide credible, grounded evidence of the range of driving forces, both positive...

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...

Uncovering Non-Garment Homework in Australia: Preliminary Issues

Abstract: Homeworkers are the most marginalized and one of the most exploited groups of workers (Greig, 2002), with an estimated 300 million...

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

Home Based Work in India: A Disappearing Continuum of Dependence?

Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, September 17-18...

Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Reshaping the social contract: emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India

Abstract: This article focuses on informal construction and bidi (local tobacco) workers in India. Informal workers in these sectors can...

How to Analyse Government Budgets from an Informal Economy Perspective

Budget analysis is a powerful policy analysis tool. This technical brief provides a guide to conducting an informal economy budget analysis...