Asia & the Pacific

Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA

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Informal Employment in India and China

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...

Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta.Dialectical Anthropology

In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities...

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....

Research Workshop on Women Workers In Global Value Chains in the Garments Industry

Case studies – Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection on garments workers in Thailand and the Philippines

Labor Mobility in Urban China

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

Labour Markets in China and India: Looking through a Common Prism

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

Provide a Better Service, the Rest Will Follow: SWaCH PCMC Brings Waste Pickers into Mainstream

In Pune, KKPKP (the waste pickers’ union) has fought long and hard to bring about a gradual change in peoples’ attitude towards waste pickers....