Asia & the Pacific

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

Urdu Translation

Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....

Bangkok’s Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations and Urban Change

Rights of Home-based Workers

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

Low Pay Among Wage Earners and the Self-employed in IndiaInternational Labour Review

Abstract: While inequality and poverty in India have been much studied, little attention has been given to the underlying role of the labour...

Social Security for Informal Economy Workers in Indonesia: Looking for Flexible and Highly Targeted Programmes

In Indonesia about 17% of the employed population enjoys formal social security mainly employees of the formal sector. With respect to health...

Social Protection as Development Policy: Asian Perspectives