Region: Asia & the Pacific

Bringing Back Social ForestryEconomic and Political Weekly

India’s social forestry programme promised much in the late-1970s and mid-1980s. It became the programme to be emulated for many developing...

Globalization, The Financial Crisis and Petty Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy

Abstract: This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis...

In the Shadow of the States: The Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in NigeriaJournal of Current Chinese Affairs

The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. ...

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...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha’s experiences in central India

Abstract: This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative...

Session 1 – Labor Market Reform and Employment Restructuring in China

materials from China-India Labour Market Research Design Workshop, 2007

Measuring Informal Employment in Urban China

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

Fact Sheet: Women Organizing for Fair Trade in India

Details of the MDG3-funded Fair Trade project in India

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers Newsletter, August 2012

This newsletter shares details of wastepicker meetings and reflections on these meetings.