India

Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

Abstract: India’s manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net...

Tamil Nadu’s Electronics IndustryEconomic and Political Weekly

India’s information technology hardware segment is heavily dependent on imports of components and finished goods. After surveying Tamil...

Globalization, The Financial Crisis and Petty Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy

Abstract: This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis...

Countdown 2015: an assessment of basic provision to migrant families in the urban slums of Ludhiana, North India

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.  

The Self-Employed Women’s Association

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

A Spreading Banyan Tree: the Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

Supporting Women Home-Based Workers: The Approach of the Self-Employed Womens, Association in India

The Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India is a national labour union that organizes women, workers in the informal economy...

Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence

This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India’s unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase...