Asia & the Pacific

Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns

Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus...

Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...

Sumário Executivo Vendedoras Ambulantes em Ahmedabad, na Índia

Employment in Unorganised Sector in Navi Mumbai: A Socio Economic Profile

From the Executive Summary: “The City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO) entrust this study to the Tata...

Pakistan’s Hidden Workers

From the Executive Summary: “The aim of the research was to map and trace supply chains in Pakistan’s informal economy; to identify...

Outworkers and Precarity: The Case of Victorian Clothing WorkersJust Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy

Abstract: Clothing outworkers are some of the most exploited and marginalised workers in the Australian labour market. If trade unions are...

Managing Resources, Activities, and Risk in Urban India: The Impact of SEWA Bank

Tracking Study of Cambodian Garment Sector Workers Affected by the Global Economic Crisis: Second Tracking Survey Final Report

Globalization and Securing Rights for Women Informal Workers in Asia

Reconfiguring Space, Mobilizing Livelihood: Street Vending, Legality, and Work in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the liberalization of the country’s economy has meant increasing rural to urban migration and dramatic growth in informal...