Region: Asia & the Pacific

India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

The Making of “World-Class” Delhi: Relations Between Street Hawkers and the New Middle Class.Antipode

Urban India is undergoing transformation as formal electoral politics increasingly favors the new middle class. Scholarship tends to compartmentalize...

Human Development and Clothing Manufacturing in Cambodia: Challenges and Strategies for the Garment Industry

SEWA Social Security: Organizing Women Workers for Insurance and Health Services

Strategies and Tools against Social Exclusion and Poverty Programme

Extending the Coverage of Minimum Wages in India: Simulations from Household Data

Conditions of Work and Employment Series, No. 26

Gender and Globalization: Opportunities and Constraints Faced by Women in the Construction Industry in India

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Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Through the Magnifying Glass: Women’s Work and Labour Force Participation in Urban Delhi

Living in the Background: Home-based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence

CPRC Working Paper 97