All posts in Asia & the Pacific
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Audiovisual Materials
VIDEO: Why Slum Dwellers in South Africa Are Collecting Data About their Communities
By 2030, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Next City’s journalists were in Surabaya, Indonesia, talking...
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Legal Instruments
Home Workers Protection Act B.E.2553 (2010)
This legal document outlines the provisions of Thailand’s ground-breaking legislation for home-based workers: The Home Workers Protection...
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Legal Instruments
Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act, 1998
This Act was enacted in order to alleviate poverty by empowering Filipino families to meet their needs by actively pursuing asset reform...
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Audiovisual Materials
Homeless construction workers of Ahmedabad
Construction workers who build houses for others are forced to live in open along with their families in city of Ahmedabad, and indeed in...
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Audiovisual Materials
VIDEO: Improving Wastepickers’ Lives in Bengaluru – Hasiru Dala Innovations
Bangalore was once known as a green city, but of recent times it has become known as a garbage city. Enter, Hasiru Dala Innovations, which...
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Stories/Case Studies
SEWA Bharat and Street Vendors in Delhi
As a livelihood, street vending is a viscious trap of poverty, especially for women workers. It is indicative of low income, physical strain,...
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Audiovisual Materials
AUDIO: Women informal workers and the city
“Women informal workers and the city” is the second episode in a radio series on informal workers in Delhi, produced by WIEGO...
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Advocacy Materials
Book launch: Redefined Labour Spaces: Organising Workers in Post Liberalised India
Event invitation to book launch on May 28, 2018.
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Presentations
Session 1 – Labor Market Reform and Employment Restructuring in China
materials from China-India Labour Market Research Design Workshop, 2007
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Presentations
Measuring Informal Employment in Urban China
Beijing workshop presentation for the China-India project, “Informal Employment, Poverty and Growth in India and China”
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