India

Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment

Impact of Price Rise on Poor Households

Law, Regulations and Rights of Street Vendors: Ahmedabad

From the preface: This working paper forms part of the research project, Making Space for the Poor: Law, Rights, Regulation and Street-Trade...

The Politics of Classification and the Complexity of Governance in Census Towns

Spontaneous urbanisation through the transfer of capital from the agricultural sector to the commercial sector has given rise to a large...

Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Home-Based Workers

This is the Executive Summary of the full Sector Report that synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of...

Health Financing and Delivery in India: An Overview of Selected Schemes

This paper analyzes some of India’s most prominent heath insurance schemes from the perspective of poor informal women workers, a specific...

Surveying Informalised Labour Conditions in India’s Organised Garment Sector

Development Viewpoint, No. 79

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...

Technology at the base of the pyramid: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

Final report for the Technology and the Future of Work Project undertaken by Practical Action and WIEGO with support from the Rockefeller...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.