Region: India

Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy

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Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns

Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus...

Report of the Independent Group on Home-Based Workers

A large section of the national workforce is predominantly home-based workers who tend to remain invisible, both physically as they are working...

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...

Gender, informality and poverty

From the paper’s introduction: In this paper we shall argue that it is not informality per se, but the nature of work and its relation...

Social Security for Street Vendors

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Street Vendors

Poverty and Social Protection in Urban India: Targeting Efficiency and Poverty Impacts of the Targeted Public Distribution SystemThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This paper draws on household survey data in two Indian cities, Delhi and Ranchi to study key issues related to poverty and social protection...

Growth in GVA of Indian ManufacturingEconomic and Political Weekly

Two comments on “Growth in Gross Value Added of Indian Manufacturing: 2011-12 Series vs 2004-05 Series” (EPW, 23 May 2015) question...