Asia & the Pacific

Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...

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,...

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Pakistan and Ravi Town, Lahore

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Outworkers and Precarity: The Case of Victorian Clothing WorkersJust Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy

Abstract: Clothing outworkers are some of the most exploited and marginalised workers in the Australian labour market. If trade unions are...

Creating Quality Jobs in China

Beijing workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

Poverty and Inequality and Relationship to Informality in India

Delhi workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”

Women Behind the Wheel: The Story of Satvashila Potekar

SWaCH waste picker co-operative operates door-to-door waste collection for households in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. Waste-collection...

SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit

SWaCH Seva Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit (known simply as SWaCH, which means “clean”) is a solid waste collection and handling cooperative. Initiated...

Domestic Workers March for “Equal Rights For All”

Law: Special Provisions Act of Delhi (India), 2009

Law authorizing the Central Government of India to, inter alia, create a scheme for the regulation of Delhi street vendors in accordance...