India

Reality and Analysis: Personal and Technical Reflections on the Working Lives of Six Women

Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India

Continuing gender stereotypes or signs of change: Occupational pattern of women workers

Approaches to Basic Service Delivery for the Working Poor: Assessing the Impact of Mahila Housing Trust’s Parivartan Slum Upgrading Programme in Ahmedabad, India

Increased urbanization in India has meant more poor people live in hazardous conditions, lacking access to even basic facilities and services....

Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment

Impact of Price Rise on Poor Households

Law, Regulations and Rights of Street Vendors: Ahmedabad

From the preface: This working paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade...

The Politics of Classification and the Complexity of Governance in Census Towns

Spontaneous urbanisation through the transfer of capital from the agricultural sector to the commercial sector has given rise to a large...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers

This is the Executive Summary of the full Sector Report that synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of...

Health Financing and Delivery in India: An Overview of Selected Schemes

This paper analyzes some of India’s most prominent heath insurance schemes from the perspective of poor informal women workers, a specific...