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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informal Workers in Ahmedabad City

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    A Handbook on Using the Mixed Survey for Measuring Informal Employment and the Informal Sector

    This Handbook is based on the experience of the the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in implementing a two -part “mixed “survey...

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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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