Region: India

Street Vendors and Legal Advocacy: Reflections from Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa and Thailand

The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: ‘Citizens’ versus the Urban Poor

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...

Extending the Coverage of Minimum Wages in India: Simulations from Household Data

Conditions of Work and Employment Series, No. 26

An Economic Sociology of Informal Work: The Case of India

Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment

Small World, Big Goals: A Home-Based Garment Worker in Delhi

From her Delhi home, Farida-ben embroiders garments for foreign retailers. Denied an education and other options, she has done this work...

The Urban Informal Workforce: Home-Based Workers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors in Ahmedabad, India