Skip To Content

India

All posts in India

  • Books & Book Chapters

    A Gendered Analysis of Decent Work Deficits in India’s Urban Informal Economy: Case Study Perspectives from Surat

    From the publisher: “Through case study material from a 2004 study of urban informal employment in Surat, India, this chapter emphasises...

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    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...

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    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...

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    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.  

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Towards Economic Freedom: The Impact of SEWA

    Abstract:

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

    Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009

    Read More
  • Policy Briefs

    India’s National Policy on Urban Street Vendors

    India is one of very few countries to have developed a National Policy on Urban Street Vendors. Adopted in 2004, its objective is to promote...

    Read More
  • Journal Articles

    Providing Sustainable Livelihood For Women through Social Enterprise: Maid In IndiaThe Development Review

    Abstract:

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

    Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

    Read More
  • Research Reports

    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...

    Read More