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Working Papers
Home-Based Workers and Urban Plans, Policies and Practice: India in Comparative Perspective
This paper explores the impact of local government policies and urban plans on home-based workers in India and elsewhere. It presents recent...
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Global Advocacy and Negotiations December 23, 2019Looking Back at 2019: Informal Workers Demanded Change — and Won
In 2019, informal workers made some noise — in their home cities and at the highest global change-making bodies. They took to the streets,...
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Public and Workplace Services December 10, 2019How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers
Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...
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Access to Public Space October 29, 2019“I, Too, am Delhi”: People’s Campaign Calls for Inclusion in Indian Capital’s Master Plan
India’s capital city is preparing its roadmap for the future – a new master planning document that sets out the vision for Delhi for two...
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Child Care October 05, 2019Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers
October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...
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Resource Documents
Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand
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Research Reports
Home Based Work in India: A Disappearing Continuum of Dependence?
Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, September 17-18...
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Research Reports
Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases
Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009
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Policy Briefs
India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors
India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...
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Journal Articles
The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in IndiaCanadian Journal of Women and the Law
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