Asia & the Pacific

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...

Informality and Gender in the Labour Market for Muslims in India: Has education been a route out of poverty?

SEWA Project: Productivity Impact Study

SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal...

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...

The Politics of Classification and the Complexity of Governance in Census Towns

Spontaneous urbanisation through the transfer of capital from the agricultural sector to the commercial sector has given rise to a large...

Can Waste-Picking Be a Good Career?

This Next City article, about KKPKP and SWaCH, has been posted here on WIEGO’s website with permission from Next City.

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-based Workers in Lahore, Pakistan

The study is designed to provide credible, grounded evidence of the range of driving forces, both positive and negative, that affect the...