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  • Research Reports

    Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector

    This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration...

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  • Journal Articles

    Growth and Inequality in the Distribution of India’s Consumption Expenditure: 1983 to 2009-10Economic and Political Weekly

    This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in India over the last...

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  • Journal Articles

    Multiple Shocks and Slum Household Economies in South IndiaEconomy and Society

    This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the...

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  • Journal Articles

    Africa’s World Trade: Informal Economies and Globalization from Below.

    Are Africa’s world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    A Spreading Banyan Tree: the Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

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  • Research Reports

    Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India

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  • Research Reports

    Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

    Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

    This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism,...

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  • Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Philippines and Quezon City

      This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Research Reports

    Empowering Women in an Insecure World. Joining SEWA Makes a Difference.

    Abstract: This paper examines what significance membership in SEWA has. SEWA, a trade union of self-employed poor women, uses several strategies...

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