India

Empowering Home-based Workers in India: Strategies and Solutions

This publication is an outcome of a grant from the Tata Trusts to the Harvard University South Asia Institute for a project on ‘Livelihood...

The Politics of Urban Space in Mumbai: ‘Citizens’ versus the Urban Poor

Home Based Work in India: A Disappearing Continuum of Dependence?

Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors, September 17-18...

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

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...

Special Issue on Unorganized WorkersThe Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

The informal economy has always existed in India, but it was seen neither as an important part of the economy, nor as a theoretical category...

Insecurities of Informal Workers in Gujarat, India

Exposure Dialogue Programme – Personal Reflection

Intentions, Design and Outcomes: Reflections on IHSDP in Maharashtra

This paper examines the implementation of the Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme in the smaller cities of Maharashtra. It...

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the home-based work sector in...