Asia & the Pacific

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

New Governance and the Role of Public and Private Monitoring of Labor Conditions: Sweatshops and China Social Compliance for Textile and Apparel Industry/CSC9000T

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India’s Informal Workers and Social Protection

A publication of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

Failing the Grade: How Cities Across India are Breaking the Rules, Ignoring the Informal Recycling Sector and Unable to Make the Grade

Indian policies and rules, while not perfect, have some important safeguards and recognition for informal sector recyclers, particularly...

Measuring the Informal Economy

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...

Women’s Home-Centered Work in India: The Gendered Politics of SpaceInternational Planning Development Review

The increase in poorly paid home-centred work has become a global phenomenon. In India, social restrictions on women’s spatial mobility...

Political Reservations and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India

Abstract: This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with...

Gender, informality and poverty

From the paper’s introduction: In this paper we shall argue that it is not informality per se, but the nature of work and its relation...