Asia & the Pacific

Fatal Fashion Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives

The Management of Risk: Informal Trade in Indonesia

Gender, Work Intensity, and Well-Being of Thai Home-Based WorkersFeminist Economics

Abstract: The contribution explores the time-use dimensions of the individual well-being of home-based workers in Thailand’s urban...

Legal Empowerment of the Working Poor: Progress Report

Progress report on WIEGO grant activities concerning law and the working poor in Thailand for the second half of 2012

The Regularising State

This article discusses a form of informality widely prevalent in small and medium cities in Maharashtra, called gunthewari. It is an examination...

Integrating the Urban Poor in Planning and Governance Systems, India

This paper is Working Paper 3 in the CUE Working Papers Series. More information and other related research papers are available on the website...

Sustainable urban development in India: An inclusive perspectiveDevelopment in Practice

Abstract: The mainstream debate on urban development looks either at urban development or sustainable cities, and tends to miss out on people-centred...

Labour Market Vulnerability in Urban China-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This paper tries to measure the vulnerability in urban labour markets by introducing a new form, wherein job security and social security...

Are Ethical Initiatives Successful in the Indian Garment Industry? A Focus on Homeworkers

Development Viewpoint, No. 83

IPRs for FarmersEconomic and Political Weekly

A number of state agencies and non-governmental organisations have come forward to facilitate farmers/breeders to register their crop varieties...