Region: Asia & the Pacific

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. ...

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

Special Issue on Unorganized WorkersThe Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

The informal economy has always existed in India, but it was seen neither as an important part of the economy, nor as a theoretical category...

Health Financing and Delivery in India: An Overview of Selected Schemes

This paper analyzes some of India’s most prominent heath insurance schemes from the perspective of poor informal women workers, a specific...

Dynamic networks of grassroots innovators in India

Abstract: ‘Grassroots innovations’ in India are receiving increasing attention from innovation scholars and policymakers alike. These innovations...

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.

SEWA Newsletter No. 44

Contents:       Women’s menstrual cycles are a “plague” : Findings from a SEWA study     SEWA’s agricultural campaigns    ...