Asia & the Pacific

Women in the Indian Informal Economy: Collective Strategies for Work Life Improvement and Development

Report of the Working Group on Occupational Safety and Health for the 12th Five Year Plan, 2012-2017

The Unorganized Sector and Urban Poverty: Issues in Livelihoods

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...

Good Practice study in Shangai on Employment Services for the Informal Economy

Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-Based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad

NCAER Working Paper Series No. 75

Legal Recognition of Street VendorsYOJANA

This article gives a brief explanation of the Bill for the protection of livelihood and regulation of street vending in the Lok Sabha. This...

Changing Structure of Governance in Non-Metropolitan Cities: A Study in Andhra Pradesh

Globalisation has brought forward new modes of governance and technological options to urban local bodies in India in the last two decades....

Financial Accessibility of the Street Vendors in India: Cases of Inclusion and Exclusion

From the Executive Summary: “Street vendors are one of the most marginalised, poor as well as vulnerable sectors of the urban informal...

New Practices of Waste Management – Case of Mumbai

Working Paper No. 35 in the SP Working Paper Series of School of Planning of CEPT University