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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...
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Journal Articles
Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration, and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat
Exploring how the policy of protection of indigenous people works on the ground in Pasighat, a town in Arunachal Pradesh, this paper brings...
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Research Reports
Vendors and Informal Sector: A Case-Study of Street Vendors of Surat City
Abstract: Street vending is an important activity related to informal sector in urban areas. Majority of street vendors are illiterate or...
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Research Reports
Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India’s Economic Boom
Abstract: In the past twenty years, India’s economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest-growing economies...
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Growth, Structural Change and Wage Rates in Rural India
Examining the structural transformation in India and its developed states to know whether they have passed the Lewis turning point, this...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Books & Book Chapters
Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics: Street vendors in urban India
Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced...
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