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  • WP19 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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  • Domestic workers at the International Labour Conference in Geneva Post

    Looking 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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  • Pushpa Rathod Post
    Public and Workplace Services December 10, 2019

    How 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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  • Workers create their own master plan. Post
    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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  • SEWA child care Post
    Child Care October 05, 2019

    Bridges 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

    Abstract:

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