India

Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

Counting the Poor: Measurement and Other IssuesEconomic and Political Weekly

Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturing

The vast informal sector in India affects everything from poverty to growth. This column presents new facts on how Indian job growth in manufacturing...

Economic Survey 2014-15Economic and Political Weekly

The Economic Survey is an important economic document published every year by the Ministry of Finance. This article undertakes a critical...

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

Defying NGO-ization?: Lessons in Livelihood Resilience Observed Among Involuntarily Displaced Women in Mumbai, IndiaWorld Development

Summary: This article focuses on how a group of women involuntarily displaced from Mumbai’s slums managed the resulting sizeable disruptions...

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

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Part II: The Making and Unmaking of a Model Market for Street Vendors

An Economic Sociology of Informal Work: The Case of India

Give Back Our Waste

Summary from Chintan: Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally...