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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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  • Journal Articles

    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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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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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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