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  • Journal Articles

    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...

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  • Journal Articles

    The Urban Dibao Program in China: Targeting and its EffectThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics

    In this paper, the data of China’s Urban Employment and Social Protection Survey 2010 (CULS3) has been adopted to evaluate the dibao programme...

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  • Research Reports

    City adaptation strategies: Recognising livelihood struggles of migrant workers in India

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  • Journal Articles

    India’s Handloom Challenge

    The Indian weaver is dismissed in high places as an embarrassing anachronism, despite demand for his or her skills and products. In the new...

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  • Journal Articles

    In the Footsteps of GandhiNational Geographic

    Abstract: The article discusses brief profile of Indian freedom fighter leader Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy. Topics include his salt march,...

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    A ‘Wild West’ of trade? African women and men and the gendering of globalisation from below in GuangzhouIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

    Based on fieldwork in Guangzhou, this paper documents the activities of a group of African women traders, highlighting their role in constituting...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

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  • Worker Story

    Headstrong: Profile of a Headloader in Ahmedabad, India

    A leader among headloaders in Ahmedabad’s busy textile market, Shanta Bababahi Bhalerao knows firstand how belonging to the growing...

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  • Research Reports

    Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors

    This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...

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  • Journal Articles

    Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

    Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

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