Asia & the Pacific

VIDEO: Sunday Market Ahmedabad

This video, filmed by Rameshwar Bhatt, shows a busy Sunday Market in Ahmedabad.

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

This document contains an Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India...

Informal Workers Narrative Discussion

Garment Makers

Booklet entitled Self-Employed Women: A Profile of SEWA’s Membership. The booklet features a write-up on the garment workers among SEWA’s...

China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for Chinese Workers

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

The Returns to Education in Formal and Informal Sector

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

Empowerment to Reach Markets: Didi Bahini Sewa Samaj HomeNet, Nepal

Didi Bahini Sewa Samaj supports urban home-based workers through training, saving and credit services, and collective work opportunities...

Domestic Workers: Conditions, Rights and Responsibilities

A study of part-time domestic workers in Delhi by researchers at Jagori.

Chintan: Jahan-e-kabari, June 2013

Jahan-e-Kabari is a platform for sharing ideas and news about the informal recycling sector, on issues that impact informal waste recyclers-...

Law: City of Taguig Ordinance No. 45 of 2007 (Registration of Hawkers)

Ordinance requiring the registration of hawkers and providing for the regulation thereof in Taguig City, Philippines