Region: India

Sumário Executivo: Trabalhadoras Domiciliares em Ahmedabad, na Índia

Employment Vulnerability in the Urban Labour Market in India-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study deals with the issue of employment vulnerability in the urban labour market in India. Vulnerability in the labour market has been...

The Importance of Being ‘Rurban’Economic and Political Weekly

A categorical distinction is facing rough weather–that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the...

Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India’s Self Employed Women’s Association

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.  

Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

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

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Legal and Policy Tools to Meet Informal Workers Demands: Lessons from India

This brief draws on a two-year Indian study detailing how legal and policy tools have been used or can be used to address the diverse concerns...