India

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

Subversive Urban Development in India: Implications on Planning Education

From the paper’s introduction: “Taking example of India, this paper attempts to build this strong critique of the present urban...

The Case of Ahmedabad, India

This case study is from UN-Habitat (2003) Global Report on Human Settlements 2003, The Challenge of Slums, Earthscan, London. More information...

City Report – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Pune, India

Political reservations and women’s entrepreneurship in India

Numerous countries have implemented seat reservations for women in politics over the past decades. Starting in the early 1990s, India’s flagship...

Analysing the Structural Change and Growth Relationship in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly

Examining the link between structural change and growth in India, this study constructs indices of structural change, and performs a panel...

Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India’s Self Employed Women’s Association

“We beat the path by walking” Part II: Three construction projects that advanced the learning and credibility of the Indian AllianceEnvironment and Urbanization

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

Working Women and Security: Self Employed Women’s Association’s Response to Crisis

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Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK